Terry Goodkind 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

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.

Good men do the most harm.

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.

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.

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

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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

Good intentions rarely make good policy.

We are living in a period of competing moral certitudes, of people who are awfully sure they’re right and fully prepared to be awful about it. Hence the culture of cancellations, firings, public humiliations and increasingly unforgiving judgments. The role of good journalism should be to lead us out of this dark defile.

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

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

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.

People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.