Bad Quotes

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.