Christopher McQuarrie Quotes

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.