People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But that doesn't always have to be a selfish thing - it could be an altruistic thing as well. You can't play good; you can't play evil. But you have to think: what does this person want to happen in this situation?
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime. I thought it was terrific the way they got their country back.
I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
