Negative Legacy Quotes

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

A slug can leave but there's always a slimy trail behind him.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

… an old idea is not necessarily a good one — slavery is an old idea; so is polygamy.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

I could have been known for something terrible.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.

In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.