Daniel Berrigan Quotes

I do what I think is right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

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

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

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

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

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

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

I have only ever followed my conscience.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

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

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

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

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.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.