Rotten Quotes

• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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• There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Littles

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Apples, Evil, Spoiled

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• Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Liars, Dirty, Pigs

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• If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Children, Agency

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Venice, Apples

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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  There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

  Karl Marx

  Misery, Wealth, Social

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

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• It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

  Louise Hay

  Order, Giving, Plant

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 04, 2009

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• The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Art, Mad

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• Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Radical

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  Confucius

  Statistics, Woods

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, p.1, Penguin

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• Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Roots, Fruit

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• Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

  Joyce Meyer

  Roots, Fruit

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2009

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Society, Ripe

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Names, Patriotism

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• The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

  Henry Adams

  Party, Hands, Reform

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• Without work all life goes rotten.

  Albert Camus

  Work, Stifling, Soulless

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• Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

  Sadat X

  Queens, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

  Isaac Asimov

  Way

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.399, Bantam

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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• A rotten case abides no handling.

  William Shakespeare

  Cases

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.283

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• We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

  Dorothy Day

  New York, Government, Suffering

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", September 1956.

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