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Quotes About Goodness

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
~ Oscar Wilde
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Save us from enormities whether open or hidden
~ Colum McCann
Cuando veas un hombre bueno, trata de imitarle; cuando veas a uno malo, examínate a ti mismo
~ Confúcio
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
~ Confucius
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
~ Confucius
If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.
~ Confucius
We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or goodness. Things that he'd no longer any way to think about at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Do you remember that little boy, Papa? Yes. I remember him. Do you think he's all right that little boy? Oh yes. I think he's all right. Do you think he was lost? No. I don't think he was lost. I'm scared that he was lost. I think he's all right. But who will find him if he's lost? Who will find that little boy? Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But who will find him if he's lost? Who will find the little boy? Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You have to believe that there is good in the world. I'm goin to say that you have to believe that the work of your hands will bring it into your life. You may be wrong, but if you dont believe that then you will not have a life.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He watched her until she was lost among the tourists. Men and women alike turning to look after her. He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Don't close your eyes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.
~ Cornelia Funke
A bondade pode ser tão claramente identificada quanto a crueldade. Irradia luz e calor.
~ Cornelia Funke
Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
~ Dale Carnegie
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
~ Walker Percy