George Washington Carver Quotes

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

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

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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.

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

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

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.