Good Men Quotes

“There are no good men in this game.”
― V.E. Schwab

“There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes.
A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day

“...perhaps that was the great ill of the world, that those prone to evil were left untouched by guilt to a degree so vast that they might sleep through a storm, while better men, conscience-stained men, lay awake as though that very storm persisted unyieldingly in the furthest reaches of their soul.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

“It was too familiar to Cody. He placed his arms around his wife trying somehow to shelter her from the reality she was facing. There was another reason for his closeness; his desperation to show her he was not one of them, that the tribes of cruel men did not recognize him as one of their own, and to show his wife that his promise to create a safe place for her was a promise she need not fear would be broken. In the innermost part of him, from the secret child that lives within all men, was a scared cry, “Please don’t think I’m bad too.” From the other innermost part of him, the secret animal that prowls in some men was a raging wolf ready to kill. The battle line within the man had been drawn. The boundaries of faith rose up around the rage, warning the soul against righteous anger morphing to blood lust.”
― Lee Goff, A Wrath Like Thunder

“He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impossible riddles. He may be the greatest hero of all, because he's a good man as well. They aren't always.”
― Peter S. Beagle, Two Hearts

“You are the shoal upon which I have shipwrecked my life...”
― S.V. Farnsworth, Monarch in the Flames

“Even good men can preform evil deeds.”
― Mike Kalmbach, The Caldarian Conflict

“I do what I do because I am who I am. Don't make me over.”
― Danee Riggs

“There was just something about a Delta boy. Physically, they were as good as men came. But add the whole warrior, protector, save-the-world attitude. Yeah, it worked for her.”
― Cristin Harber, Revenge

“Like all of us, Boaz must have suffered a crisis of meaning that comes with the financial setbacks of a famine. His community watched him face, and sometimes get defeated by weather and ever decreasing opportunities. But, Boaz stayed. Real men stay.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 51”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material

“Λέγεται ότι εάν κυβερνούν καλοί άνθρωποι για εκατό χρόνια, τα εγκλήματα θα σταματήσουν και θα καταργηθεί η ποινή του θανάτου. Αυτά είναι τα λόγια της αλήθειας!”
― Κομφούκιος

“Because any guilt the size
of a speck of dust, or shame,
can crush even the best of men,
in mountains of weight”
― Volatalistic Phil, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

“Thorn. Good demon overlord.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Son of No One

“Ours is not an age that wants heroes. Ours is an age of envy, in which laziness and self-involvement are the rule. Anyone who tries to shine, who dares to stand above the crowd, is dragged down by his lackluster and self-appointed “peers”.”
― Douglas Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

“A woman may walk around naked in front of a man, but a civilized man would never jump over her, driven by his primordial state of arousal, regardless of an involuntary erection. Erection is involuntary, but whether a man would act on it, is voluntary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop.

~from 'Delta Autumn”
― William Faulkner

“Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“My father is a good man, but what do you do with all the good men in the world? There are too many already. Sometimes you want someone less good.”
― Emily Fridlund, Catapult

“To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Quotations of Theodore Roosevelt

“Walking down the shore, he approached the child. She turned and looked at him as though surprised he was still there. Taking a step forward, the sole of his shoes getting wet, Stuart crouched to be on her level. Helen couldn’t hear what he said, but he gestured once toward her, and the girl looked up at Helen as he talked. He tried to rest a hand on her shoulder, but Lyric cringed away with her whole body, even taking a step away. Stuart retracted his hand, and from the porch, Helen could see the hurt in his eyes. With that, he tilted his head toward the sea, and the girl didn’t hesitate to run back to the shallow waves.

When he turned, his gaze caught with Helen’s, but both looked away quickly. Too quickly. Helen felt heat creep up her neck as he walked around the side of the house and away.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter :

“There comes a time when good men must rise or humanity will fall. And now is that time.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Robin Hood strung his bow and took his place with never a word, albeit his heartstrings quivered with anger and loathing. Twice he shot, the first time hitting within an inch of the wand, the second time splitting it fairly in the middle. Then, without giving the other a chance for speech, he flung his bow upon the ground. "There, thou bloody villain!" cried he fiercely, "let that show thee how little thou knowest of manly sports. And now look thy last upon the daylight, for the good earth hath been befouled long enough by thee, thou vile beast! This day, Our Lady willing, thou diest—I am Robin Hood." So saying, he flashed forth his bright sword in the sunlight.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“That moment was when I realized that I was wary of all men, not just those on the official suspect list. I had a deep conviction that anyone could do anything— knowing that people can kill is far different from seeing the proof. I had learned that humanity itself did not have limits. I knew the killer was a man because of the grunt I'd heard that night; so I knew that men, especially, were capable of anything. That night in the hotel, it wasn't so much that I thought my uncle might hurt me. It was that I didn't want to be vulnerable near that violent energy, however deeply buried it might be, however well checked. I thought it was possible that his shyness was a product of shame, or a subconscious disguise. I was sure there was no such thing as an entirely benevolent man.”
― Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

“A man can easily be stupid without being evil, but never, in even the most profound genius, is a man evil without in some way being stupid.”
― Criss Jami