Quotes About Good
You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
~ John Connolly
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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself. That's just the way Evil is. All things considered, it's better to be on the side of Good, even if Evil occasionally has nicer uniforms.
~ John Connolly
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There's a kind of evil that isn't even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It's a foulness that's right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It's in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind." "And while we're alive?" "We set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too.
~ John Connolly
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This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.
~ John Connolly
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This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves. But we don't lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live and one life to give. There's no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.
~ John Connolly
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No hubo advertencia, ni invitación a volverse con las manos en alto, ni opción a rendirse. Esos gestos eran para los buenos en las películas del Oeste, los que llevaban sombreros blancos y al final se quedaban con la chica.
~ John Connolly
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He was briefly tempted to reach for the brandy again, but no particular good had come of their previous shared moments, and so he opted for the routine of making a big pot of tea.
~ John Connolly
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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.
~ John Connolly
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The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg has put the point sharply: "With or without [religion], you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."120
~ John Corvino
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GOOD WILL YOU MARK BELOW ALL ALL RIGHT WITH LOVE AFTERWARDS WHY NOT SAY YES [ ] YES
~ John Crowley
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Most sins ... are only perverted virtues.
~ JOHN DANIEL BARRY
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To write good history is the noblest work of man.
~ John Dickson Carr
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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
~ John Donne
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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
~ John Dryden
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
~ John Dryden
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I love you, and I promise you I will support any reasonable endeavor you ever embark upon. But we are talking about twenty-five thousand dollars. Twenty-five thousand. And you have proven yourself to be a good man and a good son. But right now, you are a very poor investment.
~ John Duffy
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Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
~ David Lynch
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The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life
~ Dennis Prager
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Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.
~ Deron Williams
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There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
~ Emmylou Harris
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Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.
~ Jeremy Enigk
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Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
~ Nadezhda Mandelstam
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
~ Oswald Chambers
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