People Are Basically Good Quotes

#1. People are basically good, and when they are in possession of the full truth, they usually do the right things.

Bryant McGill

#2. If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Jim Henson

#3. You know what? You had a rough weekend, but people are basically good. They really are. We're all just on this crazy blue marble together.

Jessi Klein

#4. The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

Biz Stone

#5. DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Anne Rice

#6. Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Andy Rooney

#7. Only a fool can believe people are basically good

Dennis Prager

#8. We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

Pierre Omidyar

#9. In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

Pierre Omidyar

#10. The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

Steve Earle

#11. Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda ... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Joe Cocker

#12. The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

Wilbert Rideau

#13. how could so many people talk about the good of Query, and the good of the Guard, and then act in ways basically immoral or destructive just to be a little higher, just to get a star with silver edges instead of gold edges?

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#14. I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

Evangeline Lilly

#15. I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that's possibly why I'm quite camp, and some people think I'm gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It's always good to keep them guessing,

Daniel Radcliffe

#16. Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

Leon Redbone

#17. We all have heard a bunch of times that drinking kills brain cells, right? Right. Well, what I didn't know was that the actual sensation of brain cells being damaged is what being drunk is. So basically people are killing their brain cause it feels good. Weird, right?

L.T. Vargus

#18. But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.

Mariel Hemingway

#19. Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

Jon Evans

#20. She was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

#22. Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

Alex Pareene

#23. As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

Richard Posner

#24. The Carousel of Progress was a physical representation of Walt's personal philosophy that people, despite their foibles, were basically decent, and that life was good in any era and would only keep getting better.

Jim Korkis

#25. I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

James Ellroy

#26. People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#27. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

Don McCullin

#28. Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, do you know this girl, Amy Winehouse? She's in New York for a day. She's kind of meeting people to maybe work with on her second album.

Mark Ronson

#29. I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Ray Manzarek

#30. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Zig Ziglar

#31. People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.

John Waters

#32. Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

Mike Schmidt

#33. I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

Ville Valo

#34. Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

Mindy Kaling

#35. They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.

Lian Hearn