Ruby Bridges Quotes

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

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

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

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really 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.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

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.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

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.