Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

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

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

The ends do not always justify the means

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

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.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

There is no right in acting.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.