Henry Adams Quotes

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

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

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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

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.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

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.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

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 people do bad things.

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.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

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

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.