Limmy Quotes

There is no right in acting.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

There are no moral victories.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.