Rousseau Was Right/Quotes

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher during the Enlightenment

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some higher principles in his nature, which interests him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."

- Adam Smith

"What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone is as ugly as you? You're alone!"

- Batman, to The Joker, The Dark Knight

"Most people if left alone and unpressured are really quite pleasant people."

- Terry Pratchett

"Remember, people are good, in their bones truly good."

- The Eleventh Doctor, The Almost People