Andrew McCarthy Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

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.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

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

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

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.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.