Good Quotes

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

~ Erykah Badu

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

~ Jeremy Corbyn

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

~ Kapil Dev

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

~ Marilyn Monroe

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

~ Blake Mycoskie

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

~ John Burroughs

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

~ John Roberts

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

~ Orson Scott Card

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

~ David Puttnam

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

~ Irrfan Khan

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

~ Virginia Postrel

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

~ Graydon Carter

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

~ Jack Kingston

It is good for society to have this introspection.

~ Jacques Verges

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

~ Rand Paul

Common sense often makes good law.

~ William O. Douglas

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

~ Oliver North

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

~ Stacy Schiff

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

~ Janet Reno

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

~ Mark Helprin

I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I worked at Sears; I worked at Abercrombie folding clothes. My dad really instilled good money management habits, and I've saved 10 percent of my paycheck, every paycheck, since I was 15.

~ Rosanna Pansino

Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.

~ Eric Schneiderman

I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a chance to have a better life. I served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, went to college, have a successful career and have dedicated my life to being a good citizen.

~ Mike Medavoy

My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

~ Mo Ibrahim

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'

~ Janet Reno

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

~ Eric Holder

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

~ Scott Turow

The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.

~ Rob Dyrdek

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

~ Gary Locke

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

~ Felix Adler

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

~ John Lothrop Motley

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

~ Paul Bremer

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

~ Bob Casey

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

~ Salvatore J. Cordileone

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.

~ Juan Enriquez