Susanne Bier 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.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

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

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

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

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.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Good intentions rarely make good policy.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

People can do bad things for good reasons, or for what they think are good reasons.

I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

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 would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don't know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.

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

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.