Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

Good and evil lay side by side.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Good and evil exists everywhere.

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

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

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.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.