Donald Judd Quotes

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

You can't legislate morality.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference?

There is no right in acting.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

I seek out good work.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

You must legislate morality.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

There are times when you earn your rather inadequate salary by just doing the right thing.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.