Sherwood Boehlert Quotes

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

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.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

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

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There is no right in acting.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

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.

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

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?

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal