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• Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Temptation, Speak, Incline

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Shame

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• 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

  Winning, Fame, Goodness

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• If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

  Sallust

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

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• 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

  Good Person, Shows, Persons

  Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, 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. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Simple, Errors

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• Goodness transcends badness.

  Clive Rowe

  Goodness

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

  Anthony Burgess

  School, Government, Self

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Children, Feelings, Mind

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

  Jack Beal

  Art, Communication, Views

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• 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

  Night, Media, Illusion

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Goodness

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• Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Soul, Incredibles

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• 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

  Long, Enough, Release

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Birth, Goodness, Form

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.243, B&H Publishing Group

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• Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Wickedness, Goodness

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• ... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Running, Desire, Looks

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

  Charles A. Dana

  Eggs, Goodness

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

  John Piper

  Hurt, People, Dishonor

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.348, Multnomah

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Earth, Triumphant

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Goodness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• 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

  Common, Harm, Injured

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.59, Enhanced Media Publishing

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