Being Bad Quotes

• No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

  Aya Cash

  Trying, Sake, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fun, Be Good, Ifs

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• What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?

  Will Ferrell

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• This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

  Neal Shusterman

  Deeds, Firsts, Easy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad enough just being bad to someone, but then lying about it.

  Whit Stillman

  Lying, People, Just Being

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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• And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loneliness, Envy, Hatred

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• The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Want, Sometimes

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• I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

  Sparky Anderson

  Mind, I've Changed, Stink

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• I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

  Benjamin Spock

  Caught

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• Really, how bad is eating a piece of cake? Being bad is murdering someone. That's bad. Don't do that.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Cake, Pieces, Eating

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• My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

  Billy Eckstine

  Views, Appreciate, Work Out

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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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• We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

  Richelle Mead

  Views, Your Side, People

  Richelle Mead (2015). “Succubus Heat”, p.293, Zebra

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• If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

  Michael J. Fox

  Spiritual, Believe, Humble

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

  Zicheng Hong

  Integrity, Taoism, Compromise

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• So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

  David Alan Harvey

  Religious, People, Care

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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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• Cutting is not stupid. Stupid is being bad to someone and get them to the point of bleeding

  Demi Lovato

  Stupid, Cutting, Bleeding

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• She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sweet, Giving, Mad

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.

  Karsten Harries

  Art, Kitsch, Moral

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

  Seal

  Communication, Compassion, Overwhelming Desire

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• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  Dana Spiotta

  School, Trying, Acting

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

  Alex Jones

  Country, Fun, Power

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• Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

  Hanif Kureishi

  People, Way To Live, Assuming

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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