#good intentions

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. ↗

— Robert Southey

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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. ↗

— John Dewey

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I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #dangerous #decided #entering #good

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#filled #good #good intentions #goodwill #hell

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#good #good intentions #i #intentions #milosevic

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#create #good #good intentions #harmless #intentions

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#good intentions #had #intentions #money #only

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. ↗

— Mel Smith

#business #centre #comedy #cow #end