Andrew McCarthy Quotes

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

I don't really believe in evil at all.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

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

I think evil is very relative.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

It’s not Right vs. Left; it’s Right vs. Wrong.