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When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
Government
Good
Freedom
Active
Good Intentions
Tries
Cost
Morality
Pursuit
Come
Economy
Inefficiency
Motivation
Referee
Loss
Legislate
Lack
Intentions
Interests
Should
Rearrange
Help
Special
Special Interests
Player
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Good
Gardening
Garden
Plants
Thrive
Ambition
Patient
Good Intentions
Someone
Attention
Merely
Because
Labor
Effort
Intentions
Them
Fulfill
Requires
Grow
Satisfy
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
Good
Ignorance
World
Evil
Understanding
Good Intentions
Almost
Always
Lack
May
Intentions
Much
Harm
I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
Kanye West
Time
Human Being
Pure
Way
Extremely
Say
Proper
Always
Got
Opinions
Human
Intentions
Being
Right
Things
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing
System
More
Unreliable
Obscure
Than
Human
Intentions
Deceptive
Electoral
Populace
Whole
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
Narendra Modi
Government
Good
Integrity
Passion
Good Intentions
Our
Implementation
Hallmark
Governance
Intentions
Good Governance
Core
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper
Life
Best
Good
You
Life Is Short
Cause
Looking
Hell
Good Deeds
Good Intentions
Had
Well
Heaven
Short
Intentions
Apart
Far
Then
Deeds
Extension
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Soul
Eyes
Mark
Countenance
Intentions
Portrait
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
David Maraniss
Life
World
Accidents
Ambition
Believe
Consequences
Our
Chaotic
Our World
Misconceptions
Mystery
Lazy
Also
Revealing
Jumble
Wonder
Endless
Intentions
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Bold
Connections
Illuminate
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
Work
Hard Work
Good
Good Intentions
Unless
Immediately
Degenerate
Only
Intentions
Hard
Plans
We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
Joe Paterno
Good
Try
Will
Situation
Good Intentions
Admit
Shall
Wrong
Times
Intentions
Us
Act
Let Us
Right
Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
Monte Irvin
Life
Good
Do The Right Thing
Heart
Overcome
Good Intentions
Right Thing
Ways
Out
Wins
Through
Observation
Wrong
Over
Obstacle
Learned
Always
His
Person
Any
Just
Intentions
The Right Thing
Wants
Then
Certain
Right
Thing
Early
You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
Patch Adams
Life
Time
You
Management
Goals
Achieve
Clearly
Know
Because
Got
Time Management
Left
Trying
Manage
Intentions
Want
Central
Realize
Then
Acting
Your
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Faith
Alone
Man
Will
Before
Our
Throne
Almighty
Judged
Reads
His
Hearts
Intentions
Acts
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
Rachel Platten
Work
Good
You
Yourself
People
Good Things
Work Hard
World
Believe In Yourself
Believe
Think
Good Intentions
Kind
Good Place
General
Intentions
Happen
Place
Hard
Things
Things Happen
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Consequences
Worse
Seems
Sin
Than
Human
Intentions
Much
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas Sowell
Words
Job
Consequences
Liberals
Blacks
No Question
Concern
Match
Question
Impressive
Intentions
Deeds
Expressed
Expressing
Actual
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley
Good
Hell
Good Intentions
Too
Furnished
Merely
Yes
Intentions
Them
Paved
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
Good
Dark
Fear
Denial
Dark Side
Every
Good Intentions
Side
Our
Out
Shame
Drives
Self-Destruction
Unthinkable
Referred
Often
Psyche
Human
Intentions
Us
Act
Human Psyche
Origin
Acts
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
Wisdom
Great
Ignorance
Cause
Men
Other
Evils
Religious
Absence
Likewise
Non-Existence
Principles
Because
Opinions
Due
Intentions
Which
Certain
Each
Originate
Desires
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Good
Money
Remember
Good Intentions
Would
Only
Had
No-One
He
Well
Intentions
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman
Good
Power
Good Intentions
Harmless
Those
Concentrated
Rendered
Intentions
Create
Who
I'm a good guy with a good heart, and I have good intentions.
Antonio Brown
Good
Heart
Good Heart
Good Intentions
Guy
Intentions
Good Guy
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
Government
Good
Generation
Watergate
Will
Good Intentions
Innocence
Relentless
Presumption
Misbehave
Instead
Without
Intentions
Scrutiny
I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.
Jimmy Chin
Positive
You
Change
People
Intelligence
Collective
Important
Group
Believe
Positive Change
Those
Collective Consciousness
Something
Powerful
Talent
Truly
Intention
Intentions
Capacity
Then
Really
Creating
Consciousness
I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.
Kanye West
People
Analyze
Everyone
Immediately
Just
Intentions
Warning
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