Ethical Uncertainty Quotes

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

No one today knows what is indecent

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.