Zitat des Tages über Guter Mann / Good Men:
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.
When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.
I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.