Matt Mullenweg Quotes

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.