Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

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.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

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