Quotes About Good

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities. —La Rochefoucauld

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only. The Twenty-first Voyage

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good, mind you. The rest had to be shoved somewhere out of sight, under the rug. Which History indeed did, at times politely, at times police-ly, and yet something was always sticking out, breaking loose, overthrowing.

The mystery of the feminine heart was meant to be a good thing, by the way. A source of joy.

He has no interest in pursuing an abstract argument to demonstrate a purely theoretical truth. His practical reason is ethical. Its first principle could be stated thus: Do no evil, Take up what is good, Purify the mind— This is the teaching of buddhas.11 In seeing conditioned arising as a "ground," Gotama implies that insight into conditionality provides "grounds" on which to act.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

people are not capable of being evil, they are only capable of evil; that is the crucial difference that allows repentance and forgiveness

So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be.

This process is known as inflation, something that was good for the universe in contrast to inflation of prices that too often plagues us.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

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

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.