Quotes About Good

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

My fear of the Lord is Satan´s weakness.

Good can exist without evil, but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal, the latter is temporal.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man

unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the good of a human life conceived as a unity, it will both be the case that a certain subversive arbitrariness will invade the moral life and that we shall be unable to specify the context of certain virtues adequately.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

What is there in common between life and chemistry; between good and evil and electrical charges, between a collection of cells and the consciousness of a caress?

Preaching is an art, and in this, as in all other arts, the bad performers far outnumber the good.

In itself, no doubt, the natural and moderate satisfaction of the sexual instinct is a matter quite indifferent to morality. It is only in relation to something else that the satisfaction of a natural instinct can be said to be good or bad.

It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

Can we therefore be surprised if political action, undertaken, in all too many cases, not for the public good, but solely or at least primarily to gratify the power lusts of bad men, should prove so often either self-stultifying or downright disastrous?