Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

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

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

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

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.