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I am always reading that such-and-such an evil movement has 'good intentions'; or a person will excuse their past behavior with the comment that their intentions were good.
I don't believe it.
Indeed I know that this is untrue.
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Good intentions are the rarest of things on this earth.
In fact almost all intentions are corrupt.
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When I examine my conscience, I perceive that the worst intentions were typically those times where I was trying hardest to signal to myself and to others that my intentions were good, pure, blameless.
That was when I was most deeply in thrall to pride.
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People talk as if good intentions were the easy bit, and the accomplishment of these intentions was what was difficult, and where things went wrong.
Not so - good intentions are the hard bit.
So hard, in fact, that good intentions are impossible (to the unaided human).
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Let's hear no more nonsense about 'good intentions'...
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