Joseph Hall Quotes

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.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Biological science is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used for good or bad. It’s like a knife blade with three edges: The edge that cuts, the dull edge that does not cut well and the edge that cuts what you do not want it to.

One of my main intentions was to destroy the legend of the greatness of evil, of the demonic force.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.

The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to us.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

While 'Django Unchained' presents a morally stark universe, where people do and say evil things with no remorse, it also luxuriates in the license that such evil provides.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.