Michael Shannon Quotes

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.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

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

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

Bad company corrupts good character.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

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

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.