Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

I never in my life and felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper

Righteousness is on our side.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

The pleasures of moral purity are available to those who fancy themselves a small-church militant in an unconverted world.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing.

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There's no ambiguity there.

On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.