A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.
Bad Quotes
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)
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.
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!
It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.
Better be alone than in bad company.
