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Quotes About Bad

Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man? Meanwhile, laws and institutions require to be adapted, not to good men, but to bad.
~ John Stuart Mill
No, he is not mad. He is very bad. I am certain he is totally healthy. He has a very peculiar personality. Not that of a KGB officer. He's different, sadistic, not thinking about other people, not even the Russian people, only himself. He has these predecessors like Hitler and Stalin. We can say they did bad things but that they didn't do them because a voice told them to do it. They were evildoers. They were sadistic people. But they weren't insane.
~ John Sweeney
1, and preferably a little higher. So we'll suggest a guideline that we've taken to calling the Rule of Four: It takes four good things to overcome one bad thing. We offer this as a rough gauge. We're not claiming to have discovered a universal constant like the speed of light or Avogadro's number. It's a rule of thumb, not a law of nature. It doesn't apply to
~ John Tierney
She shrugged. "Some of it used to cause problems, like cancer. Most of it's not very nutritious. They watched for carcinogens, but that's because a consumer with cancer eats less. As for nutrition, the more air the better. My rule of thumb is if they have to flog the stuff on television it has to be bad.
~ John Varley
Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish old men are they who follow the bad example of the young. It
~ John Wortabet
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg
~ Elmer Kelton
It's hard to see how I could have been given a clearer warning that this was a bad idea unless it had started raining brimstone and I'd been visited by a plague of boils.
~ Elton John
Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.
~ Emerson Hough
The white bad man is the worst bad man of the world, and the prize-taking bad man of the lot is the Western white bad man.
~ Emerson Hough
Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not.
~ balfour arthur james iv
Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it. It seemed, in a way, to imply something supernatural.
~ Barbara Vine
But the absence of bad motives in no way alleviates the bad effects.
~ Barney Frank
The way that the meal or the music or the movie makes you feel in the moment—either good or bad—could be called experienced utility.
~ Barry Schwartz
I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
If you will take the trouble to consult your dictionary, you will find that demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
~ baum l frank iii
When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
~ Bear Grylls
I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.
~ Cardi B
Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
~ Carla Gugino
Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
~ Lauren Bush
Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
~ Max von Sydow
I get some letters from a lot of people. Sometimes it's nice, with letters from kids or from parents of kids who want to be tennis players, but I also get racist letters. It's really painful to receive something like that because you're not ready for that. You think to yourself, 'That's really bad.' But I realise that there are people like that.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.
~ Wayne LaPierre
My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.
~ Derrick Jensen