Maria Ressa Quotes

I'll never go against my morals.

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

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

I don't make my decisions by P.R. I make my decisions based on what I think is right or wrong.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

My moral compass is strong.

I never think the ends justify the means.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

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

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.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.