George Clooney Quotes

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

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

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

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

Who wills the ends must not shrink from the means.

The end must justify the means.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

We should be very chary of sacrificing large numbers of people for the sake of a contingent end, however advantageous that may appear… We never know enough to make the chance worth taking.

The ends do not always justify the means

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

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

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

I don't know how to play evil.

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