
“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”
Source: How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Class Clown (1972)
Context: There are four hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is: 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad; they'd have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large! "All of you over here, you seven? BAD WORDS." That's what they told us they were, remember? "That's a bad word!" …No bad words; bad thoughts, bad intentions... and words. You know the seven, don't you, that you can't say on television? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war.
“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”
Source: How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
“Every shot was thrown with bad intentions.”
http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0008/three.htm This has often also been quoted as, "Every punch was thrown with bad intentions."
On boxing
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word. It seems to me that it means you believe in the great potential and the best of human beings, so I didn’t have to overcome anything to accept this award; it seemed an unmitigated honor. And since the ultra-right wing has tried so hard to make it a bad word— “humanist” has been demonized in much the same way that the word “feminist” has — it seemed especially important to identify as humanist and support humanist groups.
“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”
La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.”
Biography at IMDB http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0471036/bio
“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 53
“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
As quoted by Laura Huxley, in conversation with Alan Watts about her memoir This Timeless Moment (1968), in Pacifica Archives #BB2037 [sometime between 1968-1973])