Oliver North Quotes

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

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.

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.

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

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

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.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

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.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

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.

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.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.