Antonia Fraser Quotes

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

Morals, not Art or Literature.

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

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

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

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

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

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

A moral issue is always more interesting than a real issue.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Good morals lead to good laws.