Good Man Quotes - Page 26

• Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

  Sophocles

  Peace, War, Men

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• You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. What has happened to me now has not happened of itself, but it is clear to me that it was better for me to die now and to escape from trouble. That is why my divine sign did not oppose me at any point. So I am certainly not angry with those who convicted me, or with my accusers. Of course that was not their purpose when they accused and convicted me, but they thought they were hurting me, and for this they deserve blame.

  Socrates

  Life, Pain, Men

  "The Apology". Book by Plato, translated by G.M.A. Grube,

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• If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

  Enoch L. Johnson

  Men, Leader, Ifs

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• I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

  Faith Ringgold

  Daughter, Men, Feminist

  Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Contradiction, Not Interested

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, People, Found

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793), as quoted in David William Bates "Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France" (p. 169), 2002.

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• The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sight, Grace, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.84, 谷月社

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• All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Taken, Men, Race

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• Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

  Norman Angell

  War, Men, Knowing

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

  John Dewey

  Honesty, Integrity, Moving

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

  Oliver Stone

  Revenge, Men, Two

  "Conan the Barbarian". www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 ).

  Paul Brand

  Children, Men, Needs

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• It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Fate, People, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (1915). “Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes”

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  Plutarch

  Death, Men, Hymns

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• We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.

  Chief Joseph

  Believe, Home, Native American

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• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, Animal, Men

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• In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

  Mary Renault

  Integrity, Sleep, Men

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• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Integrity, Men, Practice

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

  Aristotle

  Men, Differences, Law

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• It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Political, Civil War

  American Heritage magazine, December 1955.

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• All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

  Hermann Nothnagel

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

  Harry Segall

  Men, Devil, Be Good

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• To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

  Francis Bowen

  Inspiring, Health, Exercise

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Aristocracy, Influence

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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