One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting “the good guys” for “the bad guys.
Bad Quotes
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
Man, by his Fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. Westminster Confession.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
It is better to say something good about a bad man, than something bad about a good man.
Three things are bad for you. I can’t remember the first two, but doughnuts are the third. (Florida State football coach)
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
He’s so bad, he’d fight a circle saw!
“It’s daft, locking us up,” said Nanny. “I’d have had us killed.” – “That’s because you’re basically good,” said Magrat. “The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
