James Carville Quotes

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

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.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

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

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?