
„People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.“
— Giovanni Boccaccio, livro The Decameron
La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
Variante: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
— Giovanni Boccaccio, livro The Decameron
La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Fonte: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
p. 18.
— Khaled Hosseini, livro The Kite Runner
Fonte: The Kite Runner
— Sylvia Plath, livro The Bell Jar
Fonte: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Contexto: Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.
— Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html
Misattributed
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Contexto: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
Vice and Virtue, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
— Agatha Christie English mystery and detective writer 1890 - 1976
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919
"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie", in Baum's American Fairy Tales (1908)
Short stories
Contexto: "But what can I do?" cried she, spreading out her arms helplessly. "I can not hew down trees, as my father used; and in all this end of the king's domain there is nothing else to be done. For there are so many shepherds that no more are needed, and so many tillers of the soil that no more can find employment. Ah, I have tried; hut no one wants a weak girl like me."
"Why don't you become a witch?" asked the man.
"Me!" gasped Mary-Marie, amazed. "A witch!"
"Why not?” he inquired, as if surprised.
"Well," said the girl, laughing. "I'm not old enough. Witches, you know, are withered dried-up old hags."
"Oh, not at all!" returned the stranger.
"And they sell their souls to Satan, in return for a knowledge of witchcraft," continued Mary-Marie more seriously.
"Stuff and nonsense!" cried the stranger angrily.
“And all the enjoyment they get in life is riding broomsticks through the air on dark nights," declared the girl.
"Well, well, well!" said the old man in an astonished tone. "One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter. But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may find good witches and bad witches. But I must confess most of the witches I have known were very respectable, indeed, and famous for their kind actions."
"Oh. I'd like to be that kind of witch!" said Mary-Marie, clasping her hands earnestly.
— James Nicoll Canadian fiction reviewer 1961
ibid.: About Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier:
2000s
— Aaron C. Brown American financial analyst 1956
Fonte: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 81
— Marco Polo Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia 1254 - 1324
— Patri Friedman American libertarian activist and theorist of political economy 1976
in Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere http://athousandnations.com/2010/11/09/public-choice-ignorance-everywhere/, November 2010
— Freeman Dyson theoretical physicist and mathematician 1923
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
Contexto: A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. <!-- Pt. 1, Ch. 4
— Milton Friedman, livro Capitalism and Freedom
Fonte: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12