Badness Quotes

If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!

Goodness transcends badness.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.