Bad - Quotes
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
You may hate a thing although it is good for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you.
The [...] tragedy of happiness: people adapt to their circumstances, good or bad, the way their eyes adapt to sun or darkness.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people`s bad manners.
Two people have different information, but they think the root of their disagreement is that the other person has bad judgment or bad manners or bad values. In fact, most people would share your opinions if they had the same information. If you spend your time arguing about the faultiness of other people`s opinions, you waste your time and theirs. The only thing than can be useful is examining the differences in your assumptions and adding to each other`s information.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.