George R. R. Martin Quotes

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

It’s not Right vs. Left; it’s Right vs. Wrong.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I've never met an evil person ever.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

'A Flying Jatt' is a good superhero with no dark side. So, it is all good vs. all bad without any shades of grey.

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

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

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.

There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There's no ambiguity there.

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

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.