The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
William Sloane Coffin
Persons who think there is no such thing as luckgood or badare entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Apsley George Benet Cherry Garrard
God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.
Samuel Butler
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
Orson Scott Card
Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
Gary Ryan Blair
If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
Herbert Eugene Caen
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Julia Cameron
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
Denis Diderot
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Epictetus
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde