Quotes About Good

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better . . . while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

Whereas Lelong's authority came from the status of ownership, Dior's came from an artist's inner certainty that his work was good.

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

Rise to greet the sun Red in the eastern sky, Like a glorious bridegroom His joyous race to run. Flying birds in heavens high, Fragrant flowers abloom Tell the gracious Father's nigh, Now His work assume. May this day be blest, Trusting in Jesus' care, Heart and mind illumined By heaven's radiance fair. Thanks for raiment unadorned, Rice and wholesome food; These the Lord in mercy gives, Never failing good.[135]