Tibor Kalman Quotes

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

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

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.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

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

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

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

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

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.