We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
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.
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
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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?