Quotes About Bad

He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Both death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty – all these things happen equally to good men and bad, being neither noble nor shameful. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

In that moment, we were all witness to the dark truth that no matter where you are, how safe you feel, there are sometimes bad people looking for an opportunity to do bad things. And it's not all about winning against them; it's about being brave and not losing against yourself.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Evaluation on the GOOD–BAD dimension is an automatic operation of System 1

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

She's suing him for alimony. She would actually like to settle, but he prefers to go to court. That's not surprising—she can only gain, so she's risk averse. He, on the other hand, faces options that are all bad, so he'd rather take the risk.

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad.

Oh, said the professor sympathetically, teeth, bad? He himself had been lucky, he'd only lost five, Professor Lichtenberg was left with a mere two, and Kästner had been toothless for years.

I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

the sanctions probably have set back the Bazhenov development by half a decade or more. But in an era of oversupply and extensive conventional opportunity in Russia, such a delay is not such a bad thing from Russia's own point of view.

Robert Heinlein once wrote that fulfillment in life involved "loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

Covers by a thousand bad white blues imitators damn near wore the song out.

People who are influenced by this belief don't like to feel optimistic. They're suspicious of optimism because they think the universe, or God, will "even things out" by giving them something bad because they're feeling optimistic. This has a superstitious aspect to it, as when people "knock on wood" because they just said something optimistic, and they hope to prevent that statement from backfiring on them.

something bad happens and I hadn't worried about it, I'll feel guilty. This belief leads you to treat worry as a duty, or maybe even a beneficial activity. If you shirk your duty, bad things will happen and they'll be your fault.

bad. You see worse at the White House, but even at this level, you know, you can see that everything is on the table and nothing is on the altar. Nothing is sacred…

In a sentence: Life is bad, but so is death. Of course, life is not bad in every way. Neither is death bad in every way. However, both life and death are, in crucial respects, awful. Together, they constitute an existential vise—the wretched grip that enforces our predicament.

There is one kind of exception: those who believe that the world is too horrible a place into which to bring children. Such people believe that there happens to be too much bad in the world to make procreation acceptable. That belief must be right. I disagree only in one way with those who advance it. Unlike (most of) them, I think that there could be much less suffering and yet procreation would remain unacceptable.

The absence of bad things, such as pain, is good even if there is nobody to enjoy that good, whereas the absence of good things, such as pleasure, is bad only if there is somebody who is deprived of these good things. The implication of this is that the avoidance of the bad by never existing is a real advantage over existence, whereas the loss of certain goods by not existing is not a real disadvantage over never existing.

All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES. So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.