Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

I don't see how anyone could really think that if you have a choice between saving the life of one person and saving the lives of a million people, to say - well, I've saved the one - can you really take that seriously? I can't.

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.