Sure Narrative

“When one is sufficiently sure of a narrative and unassailable in its adherence, mere facts become trifles, easy to ignore or explain away as bad research or a simple matter of we have simply not learned how to prove our case yet. This is how bad scientists, lawyers, reporters, businessmen and politicians style themselves as good people.”
--Baroque Gato

We are All Villains

“No matter how good a person you are, we are all bad guys in someone’s story, so enjoy your role and at least be a memorable villain.”
--Niccolò Machiavelli

Behavior Spectrum

“When you say a right or wrong behavior is on a spectrum, you are simply trying to make excuses for bad behavior.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Bad Laws

“Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.”
--Edmund Burke

By All Means Marry

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”
--Socrates

The World Suffers

“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

What is Luck?

“There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.”
--Jeffrey Fry

A Bad Thing

.“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.”
--Alfred Milner

Great Ambitions

“No one with great ambitions, good or bad, has any power without the support of many with no ambition.”
--Rocky Clark

Good Citation

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bad Habits

“Bad habits are like quicksand, very easy to get into; but extremely difficult to climb out of.”
--Kenny Ray Morgan

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Bad Relationships

“Everybody has bad relationships, and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.”
--Anne Hathaway

Good Tactics

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”
--George S. Patton Jr.

Endure for Good

“He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”
--Jewish Proverb

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Pay More

“It is better to pay more for high-quality work than it is to pay less for bad work, and then more again for someone to fix it.”
--John Rampton

Misunderstood

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better Ideas

“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
--Alfred Whitney Griswold

Speculate on Failure

“It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.”
--Condoleezza Rice

Know What You Want

“When you know what you want and you want it bad enough you will find a way to get it.”
--Jim Rohn

Bad Measures

“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
--Daniel Webster