Tom Hiddleston Quotes

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

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

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.