Moral Evaluation Quotes

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Politicians should be judged on their actions, rather than necessarily their views on scripture.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Does truth have a moral?

One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all.

We will be judged as a society and as a culture by how we treated our meanest and most vulnerable citizens. If we keep going the way we're going, we will be judged very, very harshly - and sooner, perhaps, than we think.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

All I can do is my talking on the track, and I believe that when they look at the facts, people can judge for themselves if it's good or bad.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.