Kate Mosse Quotes

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

Do right and risk the consequences.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Do what you should, not what you may.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

We must do right and risk the consequences.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

You can't lead without taking risk.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.