Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

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

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

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.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

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

Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.