Saint Augustine Quotes

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

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

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.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

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

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

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