Rithy Panh Quotes

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

There are good characters and bad characters.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.