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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. -- Josephine Hart
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. -- Martin Sheen
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. -- Milan Kundera
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? -- Will Durant
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. -- Yasunari Kawabata
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. -- George Eliot
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth. -- Adrian Rogers
There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there. -- Cassandra Clare
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same. -- Dalai Lama
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body; -- Aristotle
You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet. -- Peter Storey
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. -- Xun Zi
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. -- Terry Eagleton
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings. -- Bob Brown
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. -- Mitt Romney
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human. -- David Morrissey
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all. -- Pauline Collins
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. -- Desmond Tutu
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. -- Steven Pinker
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. -- Morarji Desai
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. -- Richard Le Gallienne
I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?' -- David Miliband
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. -- James E. Faust
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? -- David Augsburger
On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out. -- Conor Oberst
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. -- Joseph P. Bradley
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. -- Julianna Baggott
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. -- Anne Frank
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human. -- Harold S. Kushner
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being -- Adil Adam Memon
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is. -- Thomas Noon Talfourd
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips. -- Albert Schweitzer
All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities. -- Georgette Leblanc
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. -- Sakyong Mipham
There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people. -- Nelson Mandela
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all. -- Anne Lamott
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. -- Robert M. Hutchins
We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. -- Agnes Repplier

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