Tag Archive for: goodness

"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."

Stephen King

"Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure."

Erykah Badu

"Compassion simply suits us all better."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Compassion simply suits us all better."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

John Ruskin

"Evil cannot create anything new; it can only corrupt and destroy what good forces have invented or created."

J.R.R. Tolkien

"In life, a decent person has so many ways to get ahead. A bad guy with the same smarts and drive has all those same ways open to them, but also some others that a decent person wouldn't go down. So, they have more chances to get ahead. As a result of this negative selection of character, the higher social classes become enriched with scoundrels. The better and more influential a social class is, the worse its average ethical level becomes. Only this circumstance can explain why the world has not been a paradise for at least five thousand years. One must know this if one wants to understand world history."

Hermann Julius Oberth

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

Der blutige Pfad Gottes (Filmzitat)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"Let yourself be infected by humanity and then thoroughly infect your surroundings, so that the virus of charity conquers the world before another virus does."

Christa Schyboll

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of goodness than malice. Evil can be protested against, exposed, and, if necessary, prevented by force; evil always carries within it the seeds of its own destruction, leaving at least a feeling of unease in people. We are defenseless against stupidity. Neither protests nor force can achieve anything here; reasons do not catch on; facts that contradict one's own prejudices simply do not need to be believedin such cases, the stupid person even becomes critical, and if they are unavoidable, they can simply be dismissed as meaningless isolated cases. Unlike evil people, stupid people are completely satisfied with themselves; indeed, they even become dangerous because they are easily provoked into attacking others. Therefore, we must be more cautious with stupid people than with evil people. ... On closer inspection, it becomes apparent that any strong external display of power, whether political or religious, strikes a large part of humanity with stupidity. ... The Bible verse that says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7) tells us that the only real way to overcome stupidity is through the inner liberation of human beings to live responsibly before God."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Health is the greatest of all possessions."

Jonathan Swift

"There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie."

Juvenal

"A good treatment cures a cold in seven days, but a cold left to itself lasts a week."

Darrell Huff

"It takes NOTHING away from a human to be kind to an animal."

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

Mark Twain

"Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it."

Hannah Arendt

"The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed."

Ray Kroc