Your Badness Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.

Bryant McGill

#4. Whom do you call bad?
Those who always want to induce shame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. 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.

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Every place there's people, there's badness.

Rae Carson

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness ... not our self-perceived badness.

Tullian Tchividjian

#12. 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

#13. There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Plautus

#14. All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

Jack Beal

#15. Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

John Piper

#16. When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. 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

#18. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all
sources.

Aristotle.

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

Alex Haley

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Freya Stark

#35. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

Dave Barry

#36. 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