Leon Blum Quotes

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.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

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

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.