Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

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

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

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

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

You just have to do what you know is right.

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

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

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

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

You got to do what's right.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

I have to do what's right.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

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

I do what I think is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

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