Bad Man Quotes - Page 3

• It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Deceit, Deceiving

  "Pro Murena". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXX), November 63 BC.

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• Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

  Sophocles

  Men, Might, Alone Time

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• I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

  Janet Suzman

  Character, Mean, Men

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• A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

  Massad Ayoob

  Men, Rights, Justice

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• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  Tacitus

  Men, Excellence, Moral

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

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• When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Fun, Men

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Heart, Men, Good Man

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• Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.

  William Archibald Dunning

  Kings, Men, Tyrants

  William Archibald Dunning (1972). “A History of Political Theories”

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, President, Citizens

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

  Laozi

  Teacher, Men, Good Man

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

  Frederick William Faber

  Powerful, Lying, Men

  Frederick William Faber (1861). “Devotion to the Church”, p.27

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• .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Winter, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

  John Major

  War, Men, Regimes

  "John Major dismisses Blair's Iraq war reasoning" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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• No bad man can be a good poet.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Poet

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• Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

  Laozi

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Judging, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Men, Dying, Messages

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• Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Good Man, Needs

  "On Education" (1867)

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• The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

  John Dewey

  Honesty, Integrity, Moving

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

  C. S. Lewis

  School, Men, Good Man

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