Men have never been good, they are not good, they never will be good.- Karl Barth (1886 &endash; 1968)
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims. Jakob Burckhardt
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. -- Democritus
The more vigour you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.... Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.--Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862),Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
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