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Quotes About Good

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.
~ John Connolly, The Infernals
There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.
~ Julian May, Perseus Spur
I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
~ Joyce Rachelle
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
~ Penn Jillette
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
~ Jeremy Bentham
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
~ Aristotle
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
~ Milton Friedman
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
~ Denis Diderot
Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
~ James Cook
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
~ Harry Browne
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
~ Asif Ali Zardari
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
~ Rufus Choate
The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.
~ George W. Bush
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
~ Peter Mandelson
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
~ George Will
I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.
~ Warren G
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
~ Dwight Morrow
There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.
~ Michelle Obama
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
~ Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
~ Lyn Nofziger
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
~ Joel Miller
I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.
~ Mike Pence