Toby Jones Quotes

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is 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.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

Listen, I'm always going to defend my character, even when she's doing something that I don't approve of, because that's what you have to do to love them and play them.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the dark side, they are still human beings.

Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done.