None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Bad Quotes
By their fruits you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. (Matthew 7:16-17)
A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.
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.
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)
He’s got a 32 gun In his pocket for fun, He’s got a razor in his shoe. And he’s bad, bad, Leroy Brown, The baddest man in the whole damned town; Badder than old King Kong, Meaner than a junkyard dog.
Do not wake me when you have good news to communicate, with that there is no hurry. But when you bring bad news, rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
He who undertakes to guide men must never lose sight of the fact that they are malicious monkeys… The folly of the revolution was in aiming to establish virtue on the earth. When you want to make men good and wise, free, moderate, generous, you are led inevitably to the desire of killing them all.
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage – torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side… The nationalist not only […]
Of course too much is bad for you. That’s what too much means!