Marilyn Manson Quotes

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.