#good intentions

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Thom Yorke

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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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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

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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. ↗

— Warren Christopher

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. ↗

— Suze Orman

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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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