Eli Roth Quotes

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I don't think villains think they are villains.

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.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Evil to some is always good to others

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Evil is a point of view.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

Moral: It all depends.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Evil depends on where you're standing.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.