Zaza Pachulia Quotes

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Morality is a social necessity

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.