Tom Robbins Quotes

I think it less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Evil to some is always good to others

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.