Jayson Blair Quotes

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

I can understand why people are bad.

We are all human, and we do bad things sometimes.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you're just plain unlucky.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.