Juvenal Quotes

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

If you grew too fond of public life it might exact compromises even if finances were not involved.

The end must justify the means.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.