Quotes about good intentions

Take it from me, there's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favour.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well-intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

He kept telling himself that he had made Yikka's dearest wish come true. But that didn't make him feel any better. A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it.

Thoughts become weapons. Philosophies are distinct reasons for war. Good intentions are the most destructive arsenal of all.

Good intentions can bring about as much destruction as an evil conqueror. Either way, the result is the same.

I do not mean to say that he will never do any mischief, never hurt himself, never break a costly ornament if you leave it within his reach. He might do much damage without doing wrong, since wrong-doing depends on the harmful intention which will never be his. If once he meant to do harm, his whole education would be ruined; he would be almost hopelessly bad.