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Quotes About Goodness

a state system of propaganda unplugged from daily reality, give to all totalitarian systems a dreamlike quality. Reality is monstrous. But the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained.
~ Chris Hedges
I will never, ever stop hoping for peace,' he said. His voice trembled with leashed emotion. 'I have seen too much good in too many people to paint them all as evil and worthy of slaughter. And I will also never stop believing that people can change. But I realize now that I've been like a farmer expecting to harvest crops from a poisoned field. It's simply not possible' . . . 'People can change,' Anduin repeated. 'But some people will never- never -desire to do so.
~ Christie Golden
I will never, ever stop hoping for peace, he said. His voice trembled with leashed emotion. I have seen too much good in too many people to paint them all as evil and worthy of slaughter. And I will also never stop believing that people can change. But I realize now that I've been like a farmer expecting to harvest crops from a poisoned field. It's simply not possible . . . People can change, Anduin repeated. But some people will never- never -desire to do so.
~ Christie Golden
She was purity. Goodness. Compassion. The other half of his soul. Light to his darkness. Everything that he was not.
~ Christine Feehan
You're a good man, Vittorio. No matter what, you're a good man.
~ Christine Feehan
the strenuous and dogmatic is the moral enemy of the good.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The power imbalance between male and female, the fear between God and humans and the enmity between humans and nature, are all described in Genesis 2 and 3 as originating not in the nature of things as God intended them to be, but rather in the collusion of Adam, Eve and the serpent, who together deny the goodness and sufficiency of the garden and distrust the good intentions of the creator.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Kebaikan merupakan milik kita yang terbaik dalam bentuk yang cantik.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is beauty in its best mistake
~ Christopher Marlowe
in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.
~ Christopher Moore
You've got the look, but you can't walk the walk or talk the talk. Tucker, you are a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, but out of the goodness of my heart, I will take you on as my student.
~ Christopher Moore
Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?
~ Christopher Paolini
Appreciation of beauty is a strength that connects someone directly to excellence. Gratitude connects someone directly to goodness.
~ Christopher Peterson
Love me...I am not evil.
~ Christopher Pike
Good teachers put snags in the river of children passing by, and over the years, they redirect hundreds of lives. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy theory around the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
~ Tracy Kidder
Because you never know when goodness is going to come showering down. Sometimes, it even comes down in buckets.
~ Tricia Springstubb
Bad has a big mouth, that's why it gets all the attention. But don't be fooled, he told them. Good doesn't need to brag. Good knows it's stronger.
~ Tricia Springstubb
What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.
~ Tzvi Freeman
When every activity of life becomes a way to know G-d, evil simply withers away and dies.
~ Tzvi Freeman
To truly banish evil, you must march on the clouds and never look down. You must climb higher until you attain a place so filled with light there is no crevice left in which darkness may hide.
~ Tzvi Freeman
Atât de mare e puterea adev?rului care, precum binele, se r?spândeÈ™te de la sine.
~ Umberto Eco
Chi ride è malvagio solo per chi crede in ciò di cui si ride.
~ Umberto Eco