A Quote by Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

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Henry Adams
American - Historian
February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good men do the most harm.

Henry Adams

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Baha'u'llah

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Isabel Paterson

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Oscar Wilde

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

James Ellroy

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

Marcus Aurelius

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Gillian Flynn

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Stephanie Mills

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Isabel Paterson

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.