Susan Glaspell Quotes

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.

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.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

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

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.