Best Well Meaning Quotes
87 Well Meaning quotes by 81 unique authors
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Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
— David Harsanyi
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The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about…
— George B. McClellan
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When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing.…
— Jeff Bezos
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It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In…
— Greg Gutfeld
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To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.…
— Murray Bookchin
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A…
— Dion Fortune
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Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things…
— Ted Bundy
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I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years.…
— Richard Helms
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade…
— Anthony Storr
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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the…
— Elinor Ostrom
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The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is…
— Solomon Asch
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
— George Lakoff
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Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in…
— Colin Robinson
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Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong…
— Neil Gaiman
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If you come upon a person who is drowning, would you ask if they need help—or would it be better to just jump in and…
— Ronald A. Rasband
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
— James Denney
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But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of…
— Albert Einstein
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Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me…
— Ted Cruz
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious…
— Carl Jung
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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are…
— Milton Friedman
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Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like -…
— Neil Gaiman
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I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors…
— Kara Walker
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The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care…
— Chris Hedges
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