Bad Actions Quotes

• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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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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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Mind

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• Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

  Beilby Porteus

  Action, Bad Thoughts

  Beilby Porteus (1805). “Lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew; ...”, p.85

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• Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doe, Action, Persons

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Race, People

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• The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

  John Clare

  Trying, World, Way

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Honor, Foundation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Winning

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• I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

  Stephen Dorff

  Feelings, Action, Action Movie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

  Charlie Cox

  Tv Shows, People, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

  Thomas Paine

  Action, Fraud, Begets

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.431, e-artnow

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• As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing profession. The problem is sometimes referred to as "the thin blue line." The problem is other times referred to as "the code of silence." It is this tendency to ignore. It is the tendency to deny. It is the tendency, in some cases, to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Moving, Heart, Blue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fall, Men, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Mean, Perfect

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• Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

  Charles Macklin

  Law, Action, Offspring

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• True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Greatness, Faces, Action

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• Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Desire, Agitation

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided upon a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction . . . will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.

  James Madison

  Fall, Numbers, Excess

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.128, First Avenue Editions

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• We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Discovery, Atheism, Action

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.292

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• He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Beauty, Self, Evil

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• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Progress, Action, Welfare

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