Ramy Youssef Quotes

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Yes, I am a Muslim. But first I am an Indonesian Nationalist.

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

There's this idea that when you say you're Muslim, that you're either all in or you're trying to escape it. I love the idea of gradations and levels, just like everybody else has.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.