Nathan Deal Quotes

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

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

The powers of science are morally neutral — as easily used for bad purposes as good ones. In the excitement of discovery, we must never forget that mankind is defined not by intelligence alone, but by conscience. Even the most noble ends do not justify every means.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

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.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Of two evils, choose neither.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

When the goals of science collide with moral and ethical judgment, there are certain times when science has to take a time-out.

The word of a private person involves in misfortune only a single human being, while that of sovereigns can create calamities for entire nations. The question may therefore be summed up thus: Is it better that a nation should perish, or that a sovereign should break his treaty? Who can be stupid enough to hesitate in answering this question?