Paulo Coelho Quotes

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

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

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

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.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

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

Nobody is all good or bad.

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

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then you change your mind, or then you realize you were wrong.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.