Bad Man Quotes - Page 2

• Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Death, Suicide, Men

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• It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Men, Good Man

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

  Theognis of Megara

  Men, Disrespect, Prosperity

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• The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Men, Office, Good Man

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• There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Ability, Good Service

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.59

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• I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

  Gavrilo Princip

  Men, Criminals, Destroyed

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• Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Men, World

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• Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Dream, Men, Wicked

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.15

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• At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

  Paul Collier

  Block, Successful, Men

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• The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Law, Safety

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.440

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• I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 21, 2014

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• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Constitution, Term

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  E. B. White

  War, Lying, Men

  Common Cause: A Monthly Report of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution, Vol. I, No. 2, August 1947.

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• One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Men, Type

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Men, People, Politics

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• A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Good Man, Enemy

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• Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

  Demonax

  Men, Law, Good Man

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• All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Good Man, Internationalism

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• After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Men, Good Man, Different

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• What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Innocence, Admire

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

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• Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

  Andy Adams

  Men, Average, Cities

  Andy Adams (2013). “Complete Western Collection”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, May

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• The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

  Euripides

  Men, Evil

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.182

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