All causes are good,' Yallin told her calmly. 'And those exact same causes are all bad, depending on which side a body's on. Regent Pettibone and his followers certainly thought your mother's cause was a bad one. To my mind, causes aren't about good or bad, in the end. They're about power. That's what makes them so dangerous.

Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

A Native American said this: 'Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.' When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most.'

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

You're right about there being some good in me. That's what's been holding me back for years.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Be not simply good; be good for something.