Mike Gallagher 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.

People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to us.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Human reason can excuse any evil.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.