T. J. Miller Quotes

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

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.

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.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.