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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

And so what? I just killed a demon in my own house, and you're going to be a dickhead about it because I'm not some spoiled-rotten rich brat like you and your sister?" Alec looked astonished. "What did you call me?

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

The destructive effects of corruption is most evident in smuggling, which is possible only with the collusion of rotten officials at the Bureau of Customs and elsewhere. Jobs are being wasted as domestic industries stagger from the atrocious and ruinous activities of smugglers.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

Man is rotten with perfection.

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

A rotten case abides no handling.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Without work all life goes rotten.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Theyre a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together.'

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press