Morarji Desai Quotes

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Humans are lazy but not stupid.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the moment.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.