Top 100 Quotes About Bad People
#1. Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
#2. [W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.
John Christy
#3. People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#4. A lot of people preach that, if we put guns in the hands of good people, that will outweigh the guns in the hands of bad people, but what we fail to look at is the mental stability of these people, no matter how good or bad they are.
Edwin Hodge
#5. Asuras are not bad people; they just have an understanding of dharma that is not valid for today's world. Sometimes, the followers are good but the leaders let them down.
Amish Tripathi
#6. Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
Amy Bloom
#7. We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound improvements in our standard of living have been achieved - our progress in health and welfare.
John Christy
#8. There are no wicked queens or vengeful sorcerers, but that doesn't mean that there aren't bad people. There are. There are some truly, truly shitty people out there.
Amy Zhang
#9. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
#10. There are plenty of bad people in the world," he said. "Too many to count. But there are good people, too.
Lauren Tarshis
#11. It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#12. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.
Dean Koontz
#13. I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
Mort Sahl
#14. I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad.
Which begs the question ... how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#15. When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
Tony McCollum
#16. There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.
Sara Bareilles
#17. Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'
Rahm Emanuel
#18. Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.
Zig Ziglar
#19. I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
Budd Schulberg
#20. That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant
the act of a tyrant.
Marcus Aurelius
#21. The vital thing is to look after those who come into your reach while you are still alive, good people, bad people, all people.
Roger Pulvers
#22. The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
Laozi
#23. Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.
Sonia Sotomayor
#24. What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad have platforms to talk about good things. Bad people are never bad in their own eyes, while good people are never good enough in their own eyes. This is the kind of world that we live in.
C. JoyBell C.
#25. Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.
Richard Dooling
#26. I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
Norman Jewison
#27. But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.
Jeff Bauman
#28. Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
Charles Eisenstein
#29. Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#31. I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.
Charles Teo
#32. Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne
#33. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.
Dean Koontz
#34. O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
Philip Yancey
#35. Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.
Alex Jones
#36. Most bad people are good people that don't know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.
Debasish Mridha
#37. I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Agnes Martin
#38. There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?
James Murdoch
#39. The world suffers a lot.not because of the violence of bad people .but because of the silence of good people
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.
Michael Booth
#41. I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be ... but that isn't necessarily all there is.
Brendan Gleeson
#42. Bad people ... are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
Aristotle.
#43. Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
Ben Goldacre
#44. I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.
China Mieville
#45. Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#46. No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
Anne Lamott
#47. Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is. Yet ... A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!
Timothy Pina
#48. These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#49. We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,' King said,
Ken Follett
#50. Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.
M.F. Moonzajer
#51. There are no good or bad people in this world; only choices.
David Seller
#52. Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Ammon Hennacy
#53. We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.
Chuck Hagel
#54. There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
Tim Scott
#55. Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#56. There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Michael Nesmith
#57. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#58. Only good people think they're bad. People who are truly rotten to the core think the problem is everyone else.
Charity Parkerson
#59. We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
G.K. Chesterton
#60. You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
Sylvia Browne
#61. Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?
Diana Palmer
#62. I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.
Paula Fox
#63. Why bad people live in heaven??
If there is heaven so do and hell exist??
but why bad are heaven and good also??
So you have done here something bad and you greeting saying "Bravo..., Bravo... well made!" - WTF???
Deyth Banger
#64. The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?
Bob Marley
#65. Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.
Matt Corby
#66. When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
Shirley Maclaine
#67. All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#68. We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious ... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#69. There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
James Lovelock
#70. I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Terry Pratchett
#72. The world is filled with good, but it's equally overwhelmed with bad. People who commit horror and evil. You have to concentrate on what you can do, what you can influence. The ones who you can hunt down.
Robert Bryndza
#73. Time is unpredictable, and I'm not going to stay in the society of bad people.
Unknown
#74. Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
Larry Elder
#75. It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.
Michio Kushi
#76. Life Is Fair I am sure you have heard the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?", but bad things happen to both good people and bad people equally. Good things happen to happy people.
Vivian Amis
#77. You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid." -The Missing
Tim Gautreaux
#78. You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
Anne Holm
#79. I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
David Baldacci
#80. My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
Michael Douglas
#81. Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better. - LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
Edmund Phelps
#83. Any discussion of money and success would be lacking if I did not state that money is neither good nor bad. In the hands of good people, money can build places of healing, worship, and learning. In the hands of bad people, money can create destruction, disease, and death.
Jim Stovall
#84. I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.
Laozi
#85. There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.
Jacque Fresco
#86. Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.
Auliq Ice
#87. If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.
Philip K. Jason
#88. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.
Amy Zhang
#89. When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.
Don DeLillo
#90. For it is a most extraordinary, though common, phenomenon to find that perfectly virtuous and upright people often like to be thought just a little wicked, whereas bad people are totally indifferent for the most part as to whether or not anyone thinks them good or not.
E.F. Benson
#91. Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
Douglas Coupland
#92. Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
Douglas Hurd
#93. The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.
Christina Engela
#94. Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.
Steven Moffat
#95. If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity?
Dean Koontz
#96. The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things
they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
Slavoj Zizek
#97. Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
Christiane Amanpour
#98. The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
Wilbert Rideau
#99. Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
Oscar Wilde
#100. Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
Daniel C. Dennett
