Robin Tunney Quotes

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Protect me from what I want.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.