Benigno Aquino III Quotes

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

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

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

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.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

The ends do not always justify the means

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.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.