Milan Kundera Quotes

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

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

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

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

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.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

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

I don't think villains think they are villains.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.