Quotes About Inherent Goodness

#1. America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we've been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don't want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs.

Heather Choate Davis

#2. We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

Steven Biko

#3. Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

Sean Bean

#4. On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

Conor Oberst

#5. You must give up your right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow - choosing to live only in me. To do that, you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.

William Paul Young

#6. Love has nothing to do with the object-thank goodness, as we, none of us, really deserve it. To love is a skill-it is to see with tender eyes. To render that which you see dear, not because of its inherent value, but because of your appreciation of it.

March McCarron

#7. At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Maria Montessori

#8. If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

Bill O'Reilly

#9. She flew like a bird, only faster.

Alvin M. Johnston

#10. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it's social death row. I'm the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking.
-Riley

Dawn Klehr

#11. When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

Sakyong Mipham

#12. The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Tom Petty