John Wayne Quotes

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

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.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

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.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

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

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

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

The ends do not always justify the means

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.