Matt Bellamy Quotes

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

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

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

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

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

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

I think evil is very relative.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.