Macdonagh Easter Quotes & Sayings

This emphasis on the difference between intentions and ultimate results constituted an implicit critique of the Christian and civic republican traditions, and continues to make moralists queasy. Both traditions had stressed the importance of good and benevolent intentions. By unlinking consequences from intentions, Smith called into question the necessity and possibility of elevating the economic behavior of individuals through preaching and propaganda.
Yet just as he transmuted the Christian virtue of charity into the secular virtue of benevolence, on another level Smith preserved the classic republican concern for the common good. Those who could be motivated to devote themselves to promoting the public interest were in need of superior reason and understanding, by which we are capable of discerning the remote consequences of all our actions, and of foreseeing the advantage or detriment which is likely to result from them. — Jerry Z. Muller

Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things. — Robert Ferrigno

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it! — Rakesh Ranjan

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care. — Banksy

Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words. — Amit Ray

I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue. — Barbara Kingsolver