Top 100 Quotes About Bad Men
#1. I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
James Ellroy
#3. A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
Joseph Hall
#4. The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.
Hesba Stretton
#5. The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
David O. McKay
#6. You can't be angry with bad men. But a good man in the wrong - why one thirsts for his blood.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.
Rachel Caine
#8. As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.
Thomas Paine
#9. If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint Augustine
#10. All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#11. I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
Robert Bolt
#12. Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife.
Patrick Gale
#14. Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.
William Archibald Dunning
#15. We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Savage Landor
#16. It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Henry Fielding
#17. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once
C.S. Lewis
#18. Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.
J. Budziszewski
#19. She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.
John Connolly
#20. Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Juvenal
#24. We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good ...
William Barclay
#25. Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
Leonard Ravenhill
#27. Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.
Dean Koontz
#28. So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
John Milton
#29. The dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater licence in wickedness;
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. I guess so," Sophia shrugged, "but he wasn't the only one who learned something on that day. I learned I don't need to break bad men to make a better world. I just need to inspire good ones.
Kipjo Kenyatta Ewers
#31. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
C.S. Lewis
#32. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
#33. There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#34. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.
George R R Martin
#35. If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
C.S. Lewis
#36. There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring.
C.S. Lewis
#37. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
#39. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#40. Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.
Lawrence Schiller
#41. Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.
Joe Abercrombie
#43. For neither do the spirits damned
Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites,
Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal.
John Milton
#44. Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#46. Good men can make terrible kings,' Tindwyl noted.
'But bad men cannot make good kings.' Sazed said. 'It is better to start with a good man and work on the rest, I think.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Thomas Paine
#48. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
#49. Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
Gautama Buddha
#50. It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man.
Ilona Andrews
#51. One of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
Junot Diaz
#53. The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4
William B. Irvine
#55. Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.
Rae Carson
#57. Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.
Mindy McGinnis
#58. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.
John Irving
#60. Bad men with smiles are the most dangerous kind.
C.M. Hayden
#61. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.
Eric Schlosser
#62. There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.
Victor Hugo
#63. Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
Benjamin Whichcote
#65. The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
David O. McKay
#66. Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.
Talbot Mundy
#67. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
#68. It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca The Younger
#69. God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men
Peter Kreeft
#70. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
Graham Greene
#71. There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
#72. Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
Izaak Walton
#73. The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
Euripides
#74. Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
Walter Lippmann
#75. Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.
William Goldman
#76. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.
Lord Acton
#77. The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#78. The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
D.L. Moody
#79. In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
#80. Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Patrick Henry
#81. I've come so far, but in some ways, I haven't gone any distance. I'm still hiding from bad men. I'm still trying to figure how to make my own way, my own fortune.
Rae Carson
#82. Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising?
Greg Giraldo
#83. Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.
Laozi
#84. Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Demonax
#85. The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
Plato
#86. 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
#88. bad things do not happen because of a wildly complex swirl of abstract historical and social variables. They happen because bad men live to stalk our happiness. And you can fight, and possibly even defeat, bad men. If you can read the hidden story
Jonathan Gottschall
#89. At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men
Paul Collier
#90. The kind of cruelty Ernie showed today scares me, reminds me and warns me not to forget what men are capable of. And not even bad men. Just ordinary men. The
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
#91. The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
David O. McKay
#92. If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
C.S. Lewis
#93. Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#94. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#95. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
Homer
#96. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.
Jackson Katz
#97. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#98. In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people, ... [t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.
George Orwell
#99. A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn't, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. By
Richard Russo
