Philip Zimbardo Quotes

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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.

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.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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

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.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

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.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

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

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.