Top 90 Quotes About Badness
#1. No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.
George MacDonald
#2. 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
#3. As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money ... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.
Shahrukh Khan
#4. Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness
meaning recognize it as yours
then one can take some fear out of the world.
Adam Phillips
#5. What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
Anne Revere
#6. The gospel enables you and your children to face the worst in yourselves - your sin, your badness, and your weakness - and still find hope, because grace is powerful.
Tedd Tripp
#7. I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.
Mary McCarthy
#8. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.
C. JoyBell C.
#9. It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
#10. Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.
Roger Ebert
#11. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
Mark Batterson
#12. Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
Oscar Wilde
#13. The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.
Gerald L. Sittser
#14. He's seen enough to know that you can't kill all the badness in the world. You cut it down in front of you only to find that it's standing right behind you.
Moira Young
#15. And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
P.L. Travers
#16. If you're comparing the badness of two words and you won't even say one of them [the n-word], that's the worse word.
John Mulaney
#18. Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
#19. We believe that if we are bad, he is just waiting to unleash his wrath on us. The truth is that he has already unleashed his wrath on his Son for all of our badness.
Jessica Thompson
#20. But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?
Anthony Burgess
#21. Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
James M. Barrie
#22. That day has come. God is now dealing with us in a new way. Our badness is no longer the obstacle to blessing. Nor is our goodness the condition for blessing.
Larry Crabb
#23. 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 of the badness there is no more fear.
Lionel Shriver
#24. Yo, back in the day, I was bad boned. I was tough, ok? Rugged. People feared me," Cain said.
"I'm sure they did."
"Are you doubting my mad badness?
Shelly Crane
#25. In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.
Christopher Titus
#26. The good hate the badness of the wicked. The wicked hate the goodness of the good.
Anonymous
#27. The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Adrian Rogers
#28. When we merely say that we are bad, the 'wrath' of God seems a barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive our badness, it appears inevitable, a mere corollary from God's goodness. To
C.S. Lewis
#29. Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. [Christ's] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.
Billy Graham
#31. If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
Sallust
#32. 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 is the way of the world.
Alex Haley
#33. In fact, if there was one thing Tabitha had learned from the weekend thus far, it was that people had all sorts of facades about them, covering tucked-away bits of badness and goodness. Fear and courage. Helplessness and hope.
Jessica Lawson
#34. That evil wasn't glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.
William Gibson
#35. As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
Margaret Deland
#36. All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
#37. The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
Criss Jami
#39. When beauty is defined, illusions of non-beauty manifest
When goodness is identified, badness becomes an option
Lao-Tzu
#40. Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
Robert Penn Warren
#41. You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches; badness impoverishes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.
M. Scott Peck
#43. What had I done? Where was my fun? I wanted play, I wanted sun, he was the opposite - I called him Zum because he's an un-fun, the sort of mean-fun bully on the playground-fun. Mean Mr. Zum.
This was madness, this was badness this was sadness this was too much un-fun-ness.
Coco J. Ginger
#44. Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing
its goodness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#45. Every place there's people, there's badness.
Rae Carson
#46. Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness inside them ... Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.
Otto Weininger
#47. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
C.S. Lewis
#48. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;
Hesiod
#49. We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick Hornby
#50. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
Dave Barry
#51. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
Freya Stark
#52. Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up.
S. Walden
#53. I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.
Liz Garbus
#54. Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad; But the gladness of her gladness, And the sadness of her sadness, Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when she is bad.
Khushwant Singh
#55. It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Lionel Trilling
#56. If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
Marcus Aurelius
#57. We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
Joel Edgerton
#60. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Fulton J. Sheen
#61. It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.
Alex Haley
#62. Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod
#63. Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
sources.
Aristotle.
#64. When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness ... not our self-perceived badness.
Tullian Tchividjian
#66. All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered.
Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey ... a woman can be just as evil as a man.
Kathy Hepinstall
#67. The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
Edward VII
#69. If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for everybody else. Such places were collectors of badness in the way hospitals were collectors of the sick and damaged.
Stephen Dobyns
#70. Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.
Carol Shields
#71. We condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.
J. E. Buckrose
#72. But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.
C.S. Lewis
#73. 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 badness.
Peter Abrahams
#74. Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.
C.S. Lewis
#75. 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 them human.
David Morrissey
#76. 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 a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.
James Frain
#77. There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus
#78. All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.
Jack Beal
#79. Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
John Piper
#80. When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent
Mark O'Connell
#82. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
C.S. Lewis
#83. The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age of the patriarchs, partly from the classical myth of the golden age. The general belief in the badness of the remote past only came with the doctrine of evolution.
Bertrand Russell
#84. Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.
Bryant McGill
#85. If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.
Bryant McGill
#86. Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective.
C. JoyBell C.
#87. Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.
L.M. Montgomery
#88. I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.
Daniel T. O'Hara
#89. Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F.H. Bradley
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