Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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

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

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

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

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

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.

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

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.