Badness Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Soul, Needs, Links

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

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

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Appreciate, Grace

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2014

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Doe, Horror

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• 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

  Character, Order, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying flat on your back and you literally have another point of view. They're about loosening up being rigid. They trip you over to break the barrier between you and the world. So their so-called "badness" actually can be quite instrumental in helping you with things.

  Brian Froud

  Lying, Views, Attention

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• 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

  Firsts, Speak, Spoiled

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

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

  Christopher Titus

  Drink, My Family, Goodness

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• 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.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mistake, Stupid, Silly

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• The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Heart, Two, Sake

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.295, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Mean, People, Sick

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• 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.

  Alex Haley

  Boys, World, Mouths

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Paper, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Thinking, Excited, Behavior

  "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• 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

  Evil, Goodness, Astonishing

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• 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

  Life, Caring, Hug

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cat

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

  Aristotle

  Spirit, Madness, Source

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• Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable. ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism:
  All men are made in the image of God;
  God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro;
  Therefore, the Negro is not a man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Money, Philosophical, Men

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• 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

  Two, Compare, Ifs

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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• 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

  Evil, Catholic, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

  Kellan Lutz

  Girl, Real, Nice

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". Slide 17, www.seventeen.com. June 09, 2009.

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

  Dave Barry

  Numbers, Helicopters

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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