Quotes About Good

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.

Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

I believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

If we are to fight evil in our world—as we are called to do—we cannot harbor deceitfulness in our hearts. May God give us the courage and the strength and the wisdom to live as he wants us to live. He is a holy God. And he is also a God of love. He desires only our good. He will show us what we each must learn from this experience today.

The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual, whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal guardian angel with him or her at every moment of life's journey.

A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy.

That's why the question what men are good for continues to be debated within our societies, as well as between anthropologists

Good advice rarely changes, while markets change constantly. The temptation to pander is almost irresistible. And while people need good advice, what they want is advice that sounds good.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

Good, said Moobin. Any questions? Yes, said Tiger. Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing? Sorry, I should rephrase that: Any questions relating to the job at hand? There weren't. Well, said Moobin with finality, there it is, then. Rest well.

By spiritual I merely mean that I feel I have good in my soul and am inclined to follow the correct course of action given a prescribed set of circumstances. Do you understand?

You're a good man." He smiled. "No, I'm an average man . . . with a truly extraordinary wife.

Según eso, también debe de haber falsos buenos —dedujo Olga. —Claro —dijo Melchor—. Son los verdaderos malos.

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

Notice, again, it is not what one does that saves him—when it is judged, the tree is already a good tree—that's why it bears good fruit (its fruit-bearing doesn't make it a good tree). One's works identify him as a good tree, wheat, a sheep, a Christian. Conversely, the bad tree, goat, tare and the unsaved man (like a child) is also "known by his doings" (Prov. 20:11). See Romans 2:6-8 in the light of this principle.

We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.

All liberation affects Good and Evil equally. The liberation of morals and minds entails crimes and catastrophes. The liberation of law and pleasure leads inevitably to the liberation of crime.

Why are criminal acts and anomalies imputed to a chemical or biological process, but never virtues and good deeds? It does indeed seem that only Evil has a right to an 'objective' explanation. Which suggests that scientific rationality might itself be merely a deeper form of this principle of Evil.