Bad People Quotes - Page 2

• The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

  Confucius

  People, Good People, Demand

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• We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, People, Needs

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• It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Hurt, People, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.145, A&C Black

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• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Anger, Character

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people.

  Steven James

  Mean, People, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

  Sophia Loren

  Sex, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• 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.

  Change, Kings, People

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• There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Recovery, Race

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• These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Girl, Sweet, Stupid

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• I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

  Laozi

  People, Good Enough, Goodness

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• Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.

  Dave Cook

  Beer, People, Bottles

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• There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, People, Littles

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

  Budd Schulberg

  People, Littles, Consistent

  Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.60, Vintage

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• You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

  Anne Holm

  People, Honest, Accepting

  Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

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• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.

  Malcolm X

  Block, Thinking, America

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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• Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.

  Alex Jones

  Media, People, Groups

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Get Better, News

  Twitter post from Oct 20, 2014

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• Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is. ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Talking, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Mistake, Sleep

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

  Drew Carey

  Jesus, War, People

  "Drew Carey: A New Lifestyle". abcnews.go.com. November 14.

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• Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

  James Comey

  Communication, People, Innovation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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