Bad Apples Quotes

“Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn’t the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs.
And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable.
But there were always emergencies, weren’t there?”
― Cory Doctorow, Homeland

“A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“Copaganda frames police violence as the product of "bad apples," which it contrasts with the supposedly benevolent behavior of most police.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News