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Albert Schweitzer:
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll
stones out of his way, but
must accept his lot calmly if
they even roll a few more upon
it.
Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if
I have glimpsed more of the
nature and essence of ultimate
good, if I am inspired to
reach wider horizons of
thought and action, if I am at
peace with myself, it has been
a successful day.
Alexander Pope:
Do good by stealth, and blush
to find it fame.
Anne Frank:
In spite of everything I still
believe that people are really
good at heart. I simply can't
build up my hopes on a
foundation consisting of
confusion, misery and death.
Benjamin Haydon:
There surely is in human
nature an inherent propensity
to extract all the good out of
all the evil.
Charles Dickens:
Charity begins at home and
justice begins next door. |
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Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to
discriminate between good and
evil.
Confucius:
He who wishes to secure the
good of others, has already
secured his own.
Dorothy Rowe:
We would like to believe that
we are not in the business of
surviving but in being good,
and we do not like to admit to
ourselves that we are good in
order to survive.
Edmund Burke:
All that is necessary for evil
to succeed is that good men do
nothing.
Elbert Hubbard:
Religions are many and
diverse, but reason and
goodness are one.
The Roycroft Dictionary and
Book of Epigrams, 1923
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Good critics, who have stamped
out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled
ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a
theory risked a cause.
H. L. Mencken:
In the United States, doing
good has come to be, like
patriotism, a favorite device
of persons with something to
sell.
Henry Brooks Adam:
It is always good men who do
the most harm in the world.
Isaac Asimov:
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's
right.
Jane Addams:
The good we secure for
ourselves is precarious and
uncertain until it is secured
for all of us and incorporated
into our common life.
Jane Addams:
We have learned to say that
the good must be extended to
all of society before it can
be held secure by any one
person or any one class. But
we have not yet learned to add
to that statement, that unless
all [people] and all classes
contribute to a good, we
cannot even be sure that it is
worth having.
John Wesley:
Do all the good you can, by
all the means you can, in all
the ways you can, in all the
places you can, at all the
times you can, to all the
people you can, as long as
ever you can.
Mary Wollstonecraft:
Every political good carried
to the extreme must be
productive of evil.
Matthew Henry:
Goodness makes greatness truly
valuable, and greatness make
goodness much more
serviceable.
Paramahansa Yogananda:
Life has a bright side and a
dark side, for the world of
relativity is composed of
light and shadows. If you
permit your thoughts to dwell
on evil, you yourself will
become ugly. Look only for the
good in everything so you
absorb the quality of beauty.
Paul Ricoeur:
The moral law commands us to
make the highest possible good
in a world the final object of
all our conduct.
Plato:
Good people do not need laws
to tell them to act
responsibly, while bad people
will find a way around the
laws.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Do not waste yourself in
rejection, nor bark against
the bad, but chant the beauty
of the good.
Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never
enough. A hard cold wisdom is
required, too, for goodness to
accomplish good. Goodness
without wisdom invariably
accomplishes evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the
worst of us, and so much bad
in the best of us, that it
behooves all of us not to talk
about the rest of us.
Sydney J. Harris:
Patriotism is proud of a
country's virtues and eager to
correct its deficiencies; it
also acknowledges the
legitimate patriotism of other
countries, with their own
specific virtues. The pride of
nationalism, however, trumpets
its country's virtues and
denies its deficiencies, while
it is contemptuous toward the
virtues of other countries. It
wants to be, and proclaims
itself to be, "the greatest,"
but greatness is not required
of a country; only goodness
is.
Theodore Parker:
Look at the facts of the
world. You see a continual and
progressive triumph of the
right. I do not pretend to
understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye
reaches but little ways; I
cannot calculate the curve and
complete the figure by the
experience of sight; I can
divine it by conscience. And
from what I see I am sure it
bends towards justice. Things
refuse to be mismanaged long.
Thomas Paine:
My country is the world, and
my religion is to do good.
Unknown:
In this world everything
changes except good deeds and
bad deeds; these follow you as
the shadow follows the body.
Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it
is good, not just because it
stands a chance to succeed.
William James:
[T]he true is only the
expedient in the way of our
thinking, just as the right is
only the expedient in the way
of our thinking.
William Penn:
To do evil that good may come
of it is for bunglers in
politics as well as morals.
William Shakespeare:
The web of our life is of a
mingled yarn, good and ill
together. |
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