V. S. Naipaul Quotes

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

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

There's no good guys and bad guys.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

… the existence of bad guys in these countries doesn’t mean that their opponents are all good guys

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

I don't think villains think they are villains.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

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.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.