Quotes About Good

The argument about ethics and morality will have to go on in a post-religious society, just as it had to go on when religion was regnant and was often ordering good people to agree to evil things such as torture, slavery, or cruelty to children.

Es que quiere evitar el mal y es incapaz de hacerlo? Entonces, es que es impotente. ¿Es que puede, pero no quiere? Entonces es malévolo. ¿Es que quiere y puede? Entonces, ¿de dónde proviene el mal?6

Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are assured, that they are doing good.

Some of those who rest in unvisited tombs may have contributed to the good of the world, but those who preached hatred and fear and guilt and who ruined innumerable childhoods should have been thankful that the hell they preached was only one among their wicked falsifications, and that they were not sent to rot there.

Is he willing to prevent evil but not able? Then is he impotent. Is he able but not willing? Then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?

Åžeytanlar? yok ediyorlarsa, polisler melek demektir, öyle deÄŸil mi? Eh, akla yatk?n. Polislerin melek olduÄŸu yer de ancak t?marhane olabilir.

Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

Tommy moved on. Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

You want broccoli? asked Mrs. Korjev. Is there orange broccoli? Sophie asked. Green broccoli is good for you, make you strong, like bear. But it's not vegan. We put on Cheez Whiz, make vegan for you. Okay, broccoli, said Sophie.

What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast.

He was very desperate for Audrey not to think of him as a bad guy. Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

Gray squirrels are solitary feeders, but they know a good deal when they see it, so even if it's against their nature, they'll put up with each other if there's a free lunch. Authors are like that as well.)

What, you think all jarheads are stupid?" Sparrow chuckled before going serious again. "All good soldiers are philosophers, same as a priest or a professor. You have to be when you deal with matters of life and death.

This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing good… I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. - Brom

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music. What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good. For the first time in days, Mo smiled.

Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped. -from the Prefatory

So the darkness is there for the sake of light. Evil exists so that good might also be. Pain exists to make room for healing.

he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.

Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El verdadero amor quiere el bien del amado (Umberto Eco)

The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,             Bloom well in prison air;           It is only what is good in Man             That wastes and withers there;           Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,             And the Warder is Despair.