George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

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.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

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.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

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

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.