Carl Hiaasen Quotes

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

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 think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

It's easy to get into the grey zone [of ethics].

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

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.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

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.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

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.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

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

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.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.