Goodness Quotes

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

Cesare Beccaria

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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

William Cobbett

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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Saul Bellow

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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Ray Stannard Baker

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In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

Frank Ocean

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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Edward Bond

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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vikram Seth

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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

Saint Ignatius

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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Madeleine M. Kunin

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

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Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Joan Fontaine

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Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Meir Kahane

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There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that accompanied his unprecedented accomplishments and successes.

Jeff Van Gundy

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People have goodness in their hearts.

Sonny Bill Williams

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When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

Rita Moreno

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How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

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I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Jon Bon Jovi

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I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.

Doug Ducey

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Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

Claire Messud

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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Antonio Porchia

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For goodness' sakes, back in 2006, when we were about to lose the battle in Iraq, thank goodness our patriots fought in the Anbar province and Fallujah and turned that thing around.

Phil Gingrey

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I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

Shari Arison

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I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

Rick Warren

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