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  • It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

    Character   Men   Liberty  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1375, e-artnow
  • We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

  • Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

    Inspirational   Men   Air  
  • Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

    Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”
  • There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

  • I write to believe in goodness.

  • Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

    "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.
  • Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

    Lakes   Swans   Black  
  • I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

    Real   Taken   Needs  
    FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from May 22, 2012
  • If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

  • We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

  • It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

    Sheep   Mind   Doe  
    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.720, Head of Zeus
  • Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

    FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Mar 18, 2013
  • It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.

    Mean   Two   Evil  
    Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.42, Library of Alexandria
  • I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

    Pain   Hate   Heart  
  • All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

    Eggs   Goodness   Badness  
  • Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

    Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times”, p.374
  • If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

    Good Friend   Enemy   Hot  
    "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.
  • Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

    Shining   Joy   And Love  
  • I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  • My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

    Loss   Greatness   Men  
  • If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

  • Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

    Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

    Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.8
  • A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

    Love   Affair   Goodness  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage
  • When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

  • But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

    "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 45), December 1, 2004.
  • The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  • O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

    Grace   Needs   Thirsty  
  • We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

    Country   Men   Important  
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