Victor Hugo Quotes

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

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

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?