David Gemmell Quotes

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

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

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

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

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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

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

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.