Walt Whitman Quotes

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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!

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

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.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.