Leif Garrett Quotes

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there's not a cost to the choice, one way or the other; whether you get it or don't get it, there's a cost. That's just basic responsibility, to admit that there's a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.