Badness Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image ““The infinite variety of human badness.”” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Badness Nature of man
“that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.” — James Redfield Copy Share Image
“One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“--that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own Minds afford… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don’t. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only… — Mike Wech Copy Share Image
“Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.” — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
“We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's… — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen 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 understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
“If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the… — Lon Chaney, Jr 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 His grace,… — Tullian Tchividjian 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 the belly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
