Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T.S. EliotTags: morality evil good-intentions
God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram SethTags: humanity god religion good-intentions
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel JohnsonTags: evil hell good-intentions intentions
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William ShakespeareTags: goodness good-intentions good-acts
The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.
Kenneth CainTags: good-intentions vengeance evil-doers
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
Haruki MurakamiTags: evil hurt wound cruelty good-intentions self-centered looking-back
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
T.F. HodgeTags: blessings wicked manipulation control chaos confusion quotes karma good-intentions calamity sorcery wizardry
...it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
Terry PratchettTags: good-intentions
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Criss JamiTags: inspirational kindness weakness purity criticism sincerity envy necessary good-intentions motives intentions bad-intentions spot validity
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David MitchellTags: honesty self-perception good-intentions self-justification
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