The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
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.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
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.
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?
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.
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.