Paul Hawken Quotes

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

Whatever is originally wrong in its own Nature cannot be sanctified or made right by repetition and use.

There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and whatever stories I work on, I want them to have redeeming moral values.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

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

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.