Tim Cook Quotes

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

Good men do the most harm.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.