Quotes about Good
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
- St. Jerome
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
- Confucius
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
- RC Sproul
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
- Philip James Bailey
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
- Charles Hodge
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
- Brigham Young
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot make men good by law.
- CS Lewis