Quotes About Morality

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

Original sin," he said thoughtfully. "That's about Adam an'—no, wait. I remember. Everybody's supposed to be sinful to start with because it takes a sin to get'm started.

Qui suis-je, moi, pour tirer des conclusions positives au sujet de la moralité et des codes qui puissent servir à l'humanité entière ?

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

The teachings of the Buddha could be summarized in four short sentences. ... [The Buddha] said ... The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

No act of killing can be justified.

We are not noble by birth. We are noble only by virtue of the way we think, speak, and act.

The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

Right or wrong action can be determined by using the single criterion of suffering or nonsuffering. Whatever causes suffering in the present or the future, for ourselves and people around us, is the wrong thing to do. What brings well-being in the present and the future is the right thing. The criterion is clear.

Protecting life is the primary obligation of someone who has the bodhisattva ideal.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

I only serve one God, and I'm only judged by one God.

I don't want America to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

If you do something bad, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It means you had bad judgment.