True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
People have goodness in their hearts.
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