Robert Bridges Quotes

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.