Fay Weldon Quotes

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Nothing is black or white.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.