Blanche Lincoln Quotes

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

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

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

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

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

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

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Modern morality is all about perception.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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.