Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

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.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

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

Evil is wrought by want of thought

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing

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.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

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.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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

God save us from people who mean well.

The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

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

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.