Eason Jordan Quotes

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done.