Quotes About Good

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Evil has only the power we give it.

If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.