Badness Quotes

Badness Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

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

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

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.

What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

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.

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.

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

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.

In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.

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.

A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you're being way too nice. Guys, as well as girls, like that sense of badness. I want a good girl, who can be a little bad.

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.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Goodness transcends badness.

All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

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.

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

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

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.

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.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.