Martin Firrell Quotes

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

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

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

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

The wrong is wrong and the fall of the majority in such wrong does not justify it. It is known that the right way is difficult and not all the people can follow it, but only the few distinguished for their principles.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

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.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

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.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

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

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

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

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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