“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch.65
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George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2004, Speech to United Nations General Assembly (September 2004)
“Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
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Karl Marlantes (1944) Businessman, novelist
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, Ch. 19 (2010).
Context: He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn't evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.It occurred to Mellas that he could create the possibility of good or evil through caring. He could nullify the indifferent world. But in so doing he opened himself up to the pain of watching it get blown away. His killing that day would not have been evil if the dead soldiers hadn't been loved by mothers, sisters, friends, wives. Mellas understood that in destroying the fabric that linked those people, he had participated in evil, but this evil had hurt him as well. He also understood that his participation in evil, was a result of being human. Being human was the best he could do. Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all. He laughed at the cosmic joke, but he felt heartsick.
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
