Gary Cole Quotes

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

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.

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

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

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

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

The powers of science are morally neutral — as easily used for bad purposes as good ones. In the excitement of discovery, we must never forget that mankind is defined not by intelligence alone, but by conscience. Even the most noble ends do not justify every means.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.