L. Frank Baum Quotes

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.