Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

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.

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.

Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

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

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

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

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Good men do the most harm.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.