Oscar Wilde Quotes

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Good men do the most harm.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

As we know, there are companies like Monsanto filling the Earth with their genetically-modified poison, which makes me wonder how many people share our belief that it's better to be good.We have to change the world!

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!

What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.