Louis C. K. Quotes

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

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

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 always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

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

The evil that we know is best.

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.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

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.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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.

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

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

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

Good people do bad things.