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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. — © Marcus Tullius Cicero
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.
X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving. — © Lev Grossman
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.
There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.
If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men
L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.
I've been married to two mad, bad, dangerous-to-know men and it was good.
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.
Hamburger bad fries bad, coca-cola bad….There I said it. Drink your water people.
And you're a bad boy?" I asked. Ollie's grin was contagious. "Oh, I'm a bad, bad boy." Cam shot his friend a look. "Yeah, as in bad at spelling, math, english, cleaning up after yourself, talking to people, and I could go on.
Many men I come across see women in an antagonistic way, and it's always the basis for a bad relationship. What I mean by that is men who come with pre-conceived notions that women are trying to tie them down, or hold them back, or that women are shallow, or that women are only attracted to money, or whatever it is.
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten. — © Ann Rule
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.
There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
Really, how bad is eating a piece of cake? Being bad is murdering someone. That's bad. Don't do that.
A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.
War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
Nobody criticized the characters in 'The Godfather' for being bad examples of how to be men.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. — © Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.
With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
When the news is slow, or when there's just so many other responsibilities bearing down on me that I don't have the time to do it right, that's when it gets frustrating. As an artist, you just don't wanna put bad work out. So when you have to do it seven days a week, you're just gonna have some bad days and bad weeks and bad months and bad years.
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
Yet we didn't fix anything. Our roads are bad, our bridges are bad, our tunnels are bad, our schools are bad, our hospitals are bad.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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