Jodi Picoult Quotes

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 shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

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.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

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

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

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

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

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

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.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I do what I think is right.

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

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.