Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Related My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who d... SVETLANA CHMAKOVA I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad pe... DONALD TRUMP Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they thi... PAUL GREENGRASS People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or t... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people. ADAM SCOTT Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people. BERNARD BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. BERNARD BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. BERNARD M. BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people. BERNARD M. BARUCH There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That... JODI PICOULT Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do.... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it’s hardly foolproof. ‘Good pe... ELAINA MARIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way. SERGEI LUKYANENKO There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad... BREE DESPAIN Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it j... LAINI TAYLOR Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien... TAYLOR SHERIDAN Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggl... KAREN MARIE MONING Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch. BERNARD M. BARUCH I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people ... TAKERU KOBAYASHI There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things. COLLEEN HOOVER Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can thin... CHRIS HARDWICK The world is full of good people who do bad things! AGATHA CHRISTIE These are unusually mature, complex characters. They do bad things for their own reasons, but that d... ANNA PAQUIN The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. The... CHARLES ALLEN The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. The... CHARLES L. ALLEN Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat ... LARRY PAGE Two brothers were discussing Adam and Eve. The 8-year-old asked: "How did Adam and Eve die?"And the ... UNKNOWN People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or... BARRY SWITZER Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people. SONIA SOTOMAYOR Many people have never discovered the power generated from a heart of service. They show up to life ... SUSAN C. YOUNG Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that... EMILY MORTIMER People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, th... CHRIS PRENTISS The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women d... TUCKER CARLSON Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth... BEN GOLDACRE Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything el... ROB ENDERLE I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed...... FRANK SINATRA If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that me... DAVE BRAT If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied,... MOHAMMED MORSI Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of... MATT HAIG People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep. SOURCE UNKNOWN Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role ... JOHN ASHCROFT You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people d... LAINI TAYLOR But if all good things come to an end
What happens to the bad things?
Do they turn into good memorie... NATALIE NOVAK Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things... STEVEN WEINBERG Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti... IRA GLASS When You Reward Bad Behavior Followed By Good Behavior, What You Get Is More Bad Behavior Followed B... DONALD LYNN FROST You got good and bad people everywhere. SUGE KNIGHT These were his friends, and his mother was wrong: they weren’t bad friends. Maybe, he thought, the... STEPHEN KING Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human. SUI ISHIDA Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practical... JACK DUNPHY People do not retire. They are retired by others. DUKE ELLINGTON They really don't transfer complete platforms anymore, complete missiles and things like that. They ... JAMES MULVENON They really don't transfer complete platforms anymore, complete missiles and things like that. They ... JAMES MULVENON People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b... AYN RAND What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h... C. JOYBELL C. There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people.... SEAN SPICER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most da... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sometimes good people do bad things. ANDREW GILMORE We have one of the best areas in the state, ... Things aren't that bad in the 1st District. They're ... CHARLES POTTER Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that n... DEAN KOONTZ People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t... WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad t... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety a... OSCAR WILDE As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going ... ALEXIS OHANIAN I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they a... JOICHI ITO People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ... DEYTH BANGER For some people, promises define who they are- their character, respect for themselves and others, a... JOSé N. HARRIS Good and bad exist always, everywhere R. ALAN WOODS The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier. JAVIER BARDEM Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and ... PUTT'S LAW Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and th... SOURCE UNKNOWN Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and th... PUTT'S LAW Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those ... MIKE TROUT Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and tho... ARCHIBALD PUTT The bill seeks to block lawsuits by people because they ate too much and got fat, CHRIS CANNON You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is ... LAZ ALONSO There are two kinds of people: those who don’t do what they are told, and those who do only that. VIKRANT PARSAI But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country to... T BONE BURNETT We’re always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we’re somehow above... MATT ABRAMS There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ... GARY WOLF They are not bad people trying to cheat on their spouses, but they are drawn together and they are f... CLIVE OWEN I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make sma... DERRICK ROSE People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities. MAHERSHALA ALI You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step asid... TOBA BETA Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad th... DANNY BONADUCE I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afra... C. JOYBELL C. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. WILLIAM E. SIMON …when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five. JANE AUSTEN I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy ... A. R. RAHMAN I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k... DANIEL HANDLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi... AMY BLOOM
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