Herbert A. Simon Quotes

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

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.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. But it takes religion to make good people do bad things.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

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.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.