Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

Quite often good things have harmful consequences… men have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it's bad for immigrants.

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

I want to be the victim of his errors.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

God save us from people who mean well.

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

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

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

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

Men often act knowingly against their interest

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

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

Good men do the most harm.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.