Ernest Hemingway Quotes

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

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

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

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

In those days…we were all friends – all willing to help one another…We were very radical, however, in our views of right and wrong…. We opposed bad men everywhere, supported all fugitive slaves who came to us, and worked like beavers for the right

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Grant, then, to Your servant an understanding mind to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad; for who can judge this vast people of yours?

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

… what is white to one person may be gray to another.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

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

I don't believe anyone is good or bad. It's about the choices we make, about how we deal with situations.

At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong - everything seems to be good even if you know it's bad. So this is what I have learnt.

I try not to cancel people. But at some point, we got to stand up and say, hey, right is right, wrong is wrong.

My heart tells me what's right.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.