Paul McCartney Quotes

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

You can't be all bad all the time.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

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?

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.