Understanding Islam, "Morals and Ethics" http://vod.dmi.ae/media/96716/Ep_03_Morals_and_Ethics Dubai Media
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Source: 1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
“Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
Daniel T. Gilbert (1957) American psychologist
Daniel T. Gilbert (2007) in: John Brockman. What is your dangerous idea?: today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable. Harper Perennial, 2007, p. 42
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 22, p. 122 (See also: Secret society)
Leviathan (1651)
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
Context: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Take Me to the Pilot
Song lyrics, Elton John (1970)
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America (June 1980)
