Kelly Miller Quotes

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

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

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.