Leonard Garment Quotes

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Gentlemen, in light of this discussion, I must really leave the room. I can't stay any longer. It wouldn't be proper for me to remain.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

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

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.