176 Bad Man Quotes

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Famous Bad Man Quotes

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. — Francis Bacon

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man. — Nora Roberts

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man. — Tim McGraw

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun — Bruce Campbell

Bad times don't last, bad guys do. — Scott Hall

A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago. — American Proverbs

Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe. — Nicki Minaj

NOBODY messes with "The Bad Guy"! — Scott Hall

A man of bad character punishes  his own soul. - Al-Ghazali

A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali

You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you. — David Rasche

Bad company ruins good morals. - Paul the Apostle

Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul the Apostle

Bad company ruins good morals. - Bible

Bad company ruins good morals. — Bible

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! — Leo Tolstoy

A bad system will beat a good person every time. - W. Edwards Deming

A bad system will beat a good person every time. — W. Edwards Deming

Short Bad Man Quotes

  • Badness is only spoiled goodness. — C. S. Lewis
  • You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. — Louis Armstrong
  • A bad boy with a good heart, I think that would be perfect for me. — Carmen Electra
  • A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • To bad times, a good face. — Mexican Proverbs
  • Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me. — Jude Law
  • To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered. — Theda Bara
  • You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever. — Jay-Z
  • If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. — Saint Augustine
  • Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do. — Scott Hall

Top 10 Bad Man Quotes

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten. — Idi Amin

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! — Leonard Ravenhill

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena

Bad Man Image Quotes

Bad man quote Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

The First Bad Man Quotes

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated. — Michel Foucault

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. — Anton Chekhov

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place. — Steve Earle

Bad man quote One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. — Louis L'Amour

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department. — Oren Moverman

Good Man Bad Man Quotes

Praise makes the good man better, blame makes the bad one worse. — Swedish Proverbs

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else — Buddha

Bad man quote Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. — Chanakya

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Bad man quote If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it cam
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

Why bad things happen to good people — Harold S. Kushner

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live! — Ravi Zacharias

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end. — Vasily Grossman

There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad. — Alexey Brodovitch

Real Bad Man Quotes

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport. — Mike Tyson

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'. — John Eldredge

Bad man quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light. — George Lillo

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know? — Anthony Horowitz

Any man that hits a woman is not a real man, he's a coward. With my wife Jodi, I think it's my job to protect her and stop anything bad happening in her life. Abusing your partner is the opposite of that. I want her to wake up and feel safe. — Kian Egan

Bad man quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pass. No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe. There is no solace in fatalism. — Hunter S. Thompson

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew. — Graham Greene

In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man. — Ralph Washington Sockman

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay. — Cormac McCarthy

I Am Bad Man Quotes

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. — Marc Chagall

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. — Vladimir Lenin

Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising? — Greg Giraldo

Bad man quote The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right. — Gavrilo Princip

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge. — Woodrow Wilson

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. — Alan Moore

Bad man quote Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists. — Robert Bolt

Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start. — Warren Farrell

I am happy to play the bad man. — Amrish Puri

I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it became for pleasure, pride, and because it's in my blood. This sports made me the man I am. — Fabio Gatti

Bad Person Quotes

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. — Abu Bakr

Bad man quote A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. — Clarence Thomas

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Bad man quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer

Bad Guys Quotes

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it. — Cus D'Amato

I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart. — John Dillinger

Bad man quote You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.

And the next morning at whatever time he’d decided, he’d awaken to find me standing outside his door. No matter what had happened the night before – good game, bad game, soreness, fatigue – he was up working out every morning while most of the other guys slept. — Tim Grover

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Wayne LaPierre

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up. — Akira Toriyama

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. — Steve Buscemi

Survey says: one more for the bad guys. — Scott Hall

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. — Christopher Meloni

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. — Sarah Palin

Bad Woman Quotes

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time. — E. B. White

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy. — Lucille Clifton

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen. — Candice Swanepoel

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. — Ozzy Osbourne

To have a woman is bad; to lose her is worse. — Danish Proverbs

No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character. — Umar

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. — Andrew Greeley

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past. — Sylvia Plath

Bad People Quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. — Plato

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance — Al-Ghazali

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. — Abraham Lincoln

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — T. D. Jakes

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. — Zaha Hadid

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. — Will Rogers

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. — Will Smith

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered. — R. C. Sproul

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith

Bad Boy Quotes

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore. — Taylor Swift

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy. — Rick Riordan

There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them. — Nina Dobrev

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy. - Zayn Malik

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy. — Zayn Malik

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy. - Sanjay Dutt

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy. — Sanjay Dutt

I've done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you're never gonna marry a bad boy. — Ariana Grande

For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing. — Carrie-Anne Moss

Nobody's delivered more bad sex across America then your boy right here. I'll put that up against anyone. — Theo Von

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. — Alexis Bledel

Evil Man Quotes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. — J. Edgar Hoover

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights. — Julius Nyerere

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. — Hannah Arendt

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three. — Buddha

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More Bad Man Quotes

Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance. — Maxim Gorky

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same. — Chief Joseph

If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you’ll understand what a bad man’s reputation is built on. I’ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of — Doc Holliday

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. — Jaco Pastorius

From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all. — Guru Nanak

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. — Miyamoto Musashi

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. — Robert H. Schuller

It's so weird man, it's like the v*gina is an elevator door that opens up into this dimension, and sometimes that elevator puts you out on to a bad f*cking floor! — Duncan Trussell

A blind man is a bad judge of color — Irish Proverbs

The joy of a psychedelic is when you have the balls to go into the darkness, and all of a sudden you realize that the darkness was a complete illusion. All the darkness and negativity and spooky shit and guilt and fear and crap you thought was inside you, and all the bad things you thought you’ve done, and all the things you feel terrible about secretly… you realize that’s nothing. it’s an illusion. The universe loves you, you are completely embraced by the entire universe. You are an incremental part of the functioning of the cosmos. You are an incredible, wonderful, perfect f*cking thing. And when you get a glimpse of that, it’s the greatest feeling ever. Because you’re healed. Because that’s what true healing is, man. True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place. True healing is realizing you just had a little bit of dust on the windshield man…you brush it off you know that’s all, man. — Duncan Trussell

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. — James Frey

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad. — Robert Wagner

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed. — Christmas Humphreys

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? — Unknown Author

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. — Paul Brunton

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