Bad Person Quotes

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.”
― Heenashree Khandelwal

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I won't ever say I'm a good person. I don't want to be. I like who I am - and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose me. Because it felt like that's what happened to all of them. They'd lost themselves to their monsters.”
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you.”
― Erin Watt, When It's Real

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“It's always worthless sort of person who puts himself out in order to get somebody else worked up.”
― Riichi Yokomitsu, Kikai

“Most good people are not good people every day all day long.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When people think you're a "good person", they're essentially putting you inside of this jar with a label on it and the ingredients on that label are whatever the fuck they think "good person" means. Of course it always just basically means "this person was born to make me feel good in any circumstance of my life." And then they pound you into that jar--every inch of you-- and think you've gone spoiled rotten when the time arises that you're no longer making them feel good, for whatever reasons that may be. And that's "good person" from other people's perspectives. Meanwhile, "good person" in first person perspective is basically "hypocrite". It's basically "let me enact these roles I think I am supposed to perform so God and mama Mary and and the neighborhood will believe I am a good person." I am always described as a "good person" and from any perspective that's coming from, I hate hearing that. I hate it. It either means they think they can stuff me in a jar and mix me with their kool aide; or it means I am sticking myself in my own jar and mixing myself with everyone's kool aide. I am a fucking wonderful person-- that is what I am. And that is exactly how to say it: "fucking wonderful"! Not just wonderful. Fucking wonderful. It's not good; it's full of wonderment! It's not bad; it's full of wonderment! So, am I a good person? I have a heart that bleeds with others and a soul that gives people homes. I don't need to be good. I need to be wonderful.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It is possible to be a bad person without anyone else knowing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are all capable of doing every terrible thing that we are capable of doing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You are only a bad person if you do bad things. That's not an acquittal. The counterpoint is that you are only a good person if you do good things.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“When I want to know someone has become evil, It`s when they stop feeling ashamed”
― Gugu mofokeng

“I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices.”
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“I am not a bad person," he said. "I am good person who has lived un a bad time.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“You're a better person than I'll ever be."
"It's all about who you ask.”
― Kayla Krantz, Reanimate at Dawn

“What does it mean, bad things happen to good people? I wonder. What does one have to do to be crowned a good person? What does it take to be considered a bad one? Who decides what is good and what is bad? Who makes that judgement? Who has that right?”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“Does it make me a bad person? Or does it make me human? Maybe I'm just a monster.”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“Yet here I am now, wondering where I messed up. Wondering when I became a bad person. A sudden thought creeps into my head and I wonder, maybe I've always been this way.”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“During trial, the jury was forced to pick; is he wholesome or monstrous. But I never questioned that any of what they said about him was true. In fact I need you to know it was all true. The friendly guy who helps you move and assists senior citizens in the pool is the same guy who assaulted me. One person can be capable of both. Society often fails to wrap its head around the fact that these truths often coexist, they are not mutually exclusive. Bad qualities can hide inside a good person. That’s the terrifying part.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“He understood how the world worked—bad things happened to good people, bad people died happy in their beds. It happened every day. So why bother being good? The word itself was attached to a series of behaviors that was, at best, an abstraction.

A person profited nothing from being good.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“You are not a bad person just because you were at fault this once. Grow from your faults and strive to be a better person. Being a good person isn’t a destination, it’s something we pursue all the time. Sometimes, we will fail but it’s alright.”
― Nesta Jojoe Erskine, Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters

“Don't stop being a good person because of bad people, because you're not being good for the bad in the world but to uphold the good in it.”
― Isabella Poretsis