Quotes About Good

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

You cannot make men good by law.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?

a nice standing ovation from a studio audience of angels, who having all died themselves, know a good death when they see one.

And so even if Hope was a contrived thing — a mechanism that popped up out of Pandora's Box by dint of levers and springs — it was by no means bad.

Sometimes, she worries about her mother, then she hardens her heart and thinks maybe the whole thing will be good for her. Shake her up a little. Which is what she needs. After Dad left, she just folded up into herself like an origami bird thrown into a fire. There

That's the bad news." "Okay, and what is the good news?" "All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.

He has an important job: Protect the yard. Sometimes people come in and out of the yard. Most of the time, they are good people, and he doesn't bother them. He doesn't know why they are good people. He just knows it. Sometimes they are bad people, and he has to do bad things to them to make them go away. This is fitting and proper.

In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer—is everything. Prayer? Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell

But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.

We're all criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms, internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.

We are, above all, British citizens of the Great British Empire. Fighting as the British are at present in a righteous cause for the good and glory of human dignity and civilisation

The key point is that not all sets of institutions, when you add up the sum of the parts, are equal. There are good and bad combinations. In some sets of institutions, people can flourish freely as individuals, as families, as communities. That is because the institutions effectively incentivize us to do good things Ã¢â'¬â€œ like, for example, inventing new and more efficient ways of working, or co-operating with our neighbours rather than trying to murder them. Conversely

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Let us enjoy the benefits of the time—but rather the benefits of their own valour and prudence, for time drives everything before it, and is able to bring with it good as well as evil, and evil as well as good.

A question of proof. That's a good title for a detective story, if you ever write one.