Robert Reich Quotes

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

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.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

I think evil is very relative.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

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.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.