Willard Gaylin Quotes

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

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.