Philip K. Dick Quotes

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.