moral dilemma quotes

7 quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

Mark Twain