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Quotes About Good

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
~ George Santayana
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
~ Greg Koukl
Good God. Men everywhere.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.
~ Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
~ John Keegan
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
~ Alan Bradley
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
~ Alexander Hamilton
France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
~ Anuj
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
~ Ben Jonson
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
~ Ben Stein
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
~ Blaise Pascal
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
~ Blaise Pascal
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
~ Bob Dylan
I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
~ Brigham Young
Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
~ Carson Daly
It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
~ Charles Lamb
Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.
~ Claudius Buchanan
In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.
~ Craig Reucassel
I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
~ Dan Harmon
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.
~ Dave Sim