Karl Barth Quotes

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

How near to good is what is fair!

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Courage is morally neutral.