Milan Kundera Quotes

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

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

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

One of my main intentions was to destroy the legend of the greatness of evil, of the demonic force.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

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.

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

There is no possible source of evil except good.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

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

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?