When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I foolishly helped to destroy, he was creating a normal of badness by which, and by which alone, an oppostie norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
