Quotation by George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. "Maxims for Revolutionists: Good Intentions," Man and Superman (1903).

The saying is an old one, traceable at its earliest to St. Francis of Assisi, and picked up by John Wesley and Samuel Johnson, among others.
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