Tzvetan Todorov Quotes

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

I think evil is very relative.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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.

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

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some individuals … while the same acts are immoral for others …

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.

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

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.

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.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

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 always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.