LL Cool J Quotes

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

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.

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

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

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

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

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

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.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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.

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