Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

You must always do what you feel is right.

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

I do what I think is right.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

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.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

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

You just have to do what you know is right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.