Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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

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

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

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

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.

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

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.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

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

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

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 have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

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

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

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

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.