J. D. Salinger Quotes

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

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

I don't think villains think they are villains.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

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

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

Good and evil lay side by side.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

War justifies everything.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.