Michel Onfray Quotes

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

I think evil is very relative.

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.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

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

The idea of good and evil is a myth created by the politicians, the priests, and all those who have an interest to keep it at their mercy.

The foundations of society have cracked as a result of the revolutionary reforms....The definitions and boundary lines of good and evil have disappeared.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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.

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.

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

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

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.