Good Man Quotes - Page 31

• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Integrity, Eye, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.702, Macmillan

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• Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

  Hiram Powers

  Education, Heart, Men

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• Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Children, War

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Civility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Men

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Husband, Lying

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.32, e-artnow

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• If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Love You, Men

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• To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press

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• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

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• On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Reflection, Issues

  Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hurt, Essence, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.160, Routledge

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• For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

  Solon

  Integrity, Men, Evil

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• "A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Light, Giving

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

  Emile Zola

  Struggle, Blood, Dynasty

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• Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

  William Saroyan

  Men, World, Worst

  "I Used to Believe I Had Forever - Now I'm Not So Sure". Book by William Saroyan, 1968.

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• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Giving, Paradise

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1983). “Freedom Or Death: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

  Diogenes

  Men, Boys, Sparta

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

  Antisthenes

  Men, States, Doomed

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

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• The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

  Robert Briffault

  Character, Men, Evil

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• A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Stuff, Fool

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

  Plutarch

  Men, Battle, Leisure

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

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