Michael O'Brien Quotes

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.