Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

There is no right in acting.

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

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

I think evil is very relative.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

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