John F. Kennedy Quotes

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

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

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

There is no sin but ignorance.

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

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

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

The ends do not always justify the means

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

I just think there is a right way to do things, and I don't think two wrongs make a right.

I never think the ends justify the means.