Frank Herbert Quotes

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

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

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

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.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

I like characters who are contradictory.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

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.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

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