It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
“If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
As much bad there is in the world, I like to believe that people are good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Accepting "I'm Bad too" is a Great and Beautiful Maturity so far.” — Pradip Bendkule Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings,… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Is your badness so varied that it is still delightful? I expect anything gets boring after a while.' He looked at her… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
“This is bad," was all I could manage to say. "Yeah, I kind of picked up on that too." "No,I mean really… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have any notion then how much evil we got in us, all of us. Seems like none of us ever… — Thomas Cullinan Copy Share Image
And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
