John Connolly Quotes

The act of feeling what you believe other people feel is morally corosive.... If we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off withouit empathy.

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.

I think evil is very relative.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.