Well-Meaning Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent…the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

[Abraham Lincoln is] nothing more than a well meaning baboon.

Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's as clueless as you are. If I didn't care about your virtue so much, I'd actually probably give him a lecture on 'how' to try something." -Trey, pg. 70

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well meaning, but with very little intellect.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes 'microaggressions.' People who will just cut you off. You'll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That's become a big pet peeve of mine.

I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.