Francis Bacon Quotes

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

The right way is not necessarily the easy one.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

The lesser evil is also evil.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?