Aaron Hill Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

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

The ones that I love of 'I Love Lucy' are when one of them decides they need something, and the other one is along for the ride, sort of as the voice of reason, and is helping and making it worse.

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.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

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.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

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

I want to be the victim of his errors.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?

Or you can stay frigid," says WIll, his green eyes glinting with mischief. "You know. If you want." Christina throws a roll at him. He catches it and bites it. "Don't be mean to her," she says. "Frigidity is in her nature. Sort of like being a know-it-all is in yours." "I am not frigid!" I exclaim. "Don't worry about it," says Will. It's endearing. Look you're all red.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.