Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two.

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

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

Governments almost never act with moral clarity and for very good reason. They are dealing with competing interests.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

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

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

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.

In a gray area, you don't have to provide an answer. And I don't want to. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, well, here's the answer. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, this is how to be a Muslim.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.