Tony Blair Quotes

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

We draw the sword with a clear conscious and clean hands! Our invasion of Belgium is contrary to International Law, but this wrong – I speak openly – that we are committing – that we are committing – we will make right as soon as our military objective has been attained.

Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the moment.

How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? 'I was following orders.' But what does that mean?

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.