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  • Badness is only spoiled goodness. -- C. S. Lewis
  • There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. -- Plautus
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink. -- Christopher Titus
  • You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee. -- Edward VII
  • Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled. -- C. S. Lewis
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Shah Rukh Khan
  • Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers. -- Andrew Hill
  • Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard. -- Hesiod
  • 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
  • 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
  • Goodness transcends badness. -- Clive Rowe
  • Every place there's people, there's badness. -- Rae Carson
  • Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources. -- Aristotle
  • What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome? -- Anne Revere
  • Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. -- John Piper
  • When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. -- Dave Barry
  • All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one. -- Charles A. Dana
  • We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth. -- Adrian Rogers
  • When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. -- Jack Beal
  • It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. -- Freya Stark
  • Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of. -- Robert Penn Warren
  • We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story. -- Alice Mattison
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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