Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

What is right is not always popular.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

To talk of resisting what is called public opinion as a crime, is to make Socrates an anarchist and Jesus Christ a felon.

The wrong is wrong and the fall of the majority in such wrong does not justify it. It is known that the right way is difficult and not all the people can follow it, but only the few distinguished for their principles.

If Jesus Christ had taken a poll, he would never have preached the gospel.

I believe that to have interfered as I have done—in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.