Good People Quotes - Page 9

• You're going to find the good people and bad all around.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Witch Trials, People

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

  Neal Stephenson

  Witch Trials, People, Events

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

  Anthony Joshua

  People, Lucky, Taught

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've had a lot of good people in my life.

  Miley Cyrus

  People

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  People, Second Amendment, Watches

  "Donald Trump's debate transcript: analyzing his claims issue by issue" by Lois Beckett, Jon Swaine, Spencer Ackerman, Oliver Milman, Molly Redden, David Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or two people who complained that I didn't do justice to the many good people who lived in the holler, most of the local objections have been aimed at the violence and foul language.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Selfish, Stupid, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha, and if they're practicing well and are good people with good hearts, then you have a cause for trust.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Heart, People

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Writing, Night, Two

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.

  Don Rickles

  People, Gone, Ran

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Soccer, Sports, Strong

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  Dan Ariely

  Football, Cheating, Motivation

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• Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

  Pythagoras

  Grief, Fate, Destiny

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• I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.

  Clay Aiken

  Jobs, Nice, Good Friend

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• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Couple, Funny Things, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Sitting, Firsts

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Kids, Night, People

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

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• The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, People, Horror

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• We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Political, Forgotten

  "Thom Hartmann Talks to Chris Hedges About How Liberals Are a Useless Lot". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. December 07, 2009.

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