Action Quote by Kaiten Nukariya

“an action is good when it promotes interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive; and it is bad when…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“in the use of the terms 'good' and 'bad.' Now let us examine how does good differ from bad. A good action ever promotes…

— Kaiten Nukariya

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

— Milan Kundera

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

— Plutarch

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but…

— Peter Abelard

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

— Immanuel Kant

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

— Stephen Mitchell

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

— Richard Eyre

“purely good actions are those actions which subserve and never hinder human interests either material or spiritual, such as humanity and love of all…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.”

— Pearl Zhu

In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in…

— Peter Abelard