Shirley MacLaine Quotes

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

Evil to some is always good to others

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

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.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

I think evil is very relative.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.