Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

We are not always even what we are most.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.