Bryan Singer Quotes

The animating doctrine of early-20th-century Progressivism, with its faith in the perfectibility of man, held that social ills could be corrected by means of education. People do bad things, in this view, because they don’t know any better; they harm themselves and others because they have bad information. That view is almost totally false, as a moment’s reflection on the many monstrous acts perpetrated by highly educated and well-informed criminals and tyrants should indicate.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

At the root of any societal issue is human truth, especially those truths we find hard to confront.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

Man has created death.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Few men know all the ill they do.