History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson