Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)
“Old gods sometimes do that in their retirement. They become galactic social workers, self-appointed do-gooders.”
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 502)
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As quoted in The Times [London] (27 June 1955)
Context: The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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“They will do anything for the worker, except become one.”
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“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
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Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Gregory Peck (1916–2003) American actor
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Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar
The Necessity of the New Birth, Selected sermons of Schleiermacher https://archive.org/details/selectedsermonso00schl, translated by Mary Wilson 1890, p. 89 <br class="br">Context: Between the beginning of our existence and our present life and aims there lies a time in which lust was the prevailing power; in which it conceived and brought forth sin. If we are honest, we can say that there is a period on which we look back only with the feeling that we appear to ourselves to have become since then different men. That which was then our innermost I and Self has now become something far off and strange to us; and the law of divine appointment, which has now through the grace of God become the law of our life, which we love and obey, was then far off and strange. We were only aware of it as an external force, impeding the free course of our life, just as now the separate stirrings of the flesh and of sin are a force which we do not ascribe to our real life. Thus, then, it is true that one life has ceased and another has begun. But the beginning of the new life is the new birth; and this holds good universally, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; the old is passed away, behold all is become new.