Her father had lived for moral responsibility-careful science, accountability, faith in man's inherent goodness.

We want to believe in the inherent goodness of humankind - if only for a couple of weeks.

The Enlightenment thinkers believed in the inherent goodness of the human mind.

According to some versions of the legend, you called down the Rainbow through your own inherent goodness.

"How come it's always his inherent goodness, and never mine?"

Underlying both these attitudes is a conscious or unconscious belief in America's inherent goodness and benevolence.

Her inherent "goodness" washing over me, calming my fears.

Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature.

This belief in the inherent goodness of humanity is at the heart of all nature writing.

His argument was based on two major premises; the inherent goodness of man, and the basic human need for approval.