Henry Fielding Quotes

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.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

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.

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.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

You just have to do what you know is right.

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

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

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