Philip Francis Quotes

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

No one does wrong voluntarily.

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

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

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

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

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

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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.

I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

You should just do the right thing.

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