"Only a fool can believe people are basically…" — Dennis Prager

More Basically Good Quotes

This quote is filed under Basically Good Quotes, one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good.… — Martha Stewart
• Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the… — Unknown Author
• If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good. — Jim Henson
• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically… — Andy Rooney
• Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and… — Sakyong Mipham
• People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and… — John Waters
• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and… — Steve Jobs
• Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet… — Jane Smiley
• The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and… — Christopher Nolan
• It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The… — Terry Pratchett
• I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good. — Junot Diaz
• In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good. — Pierre Omidyar

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