“Well, it’s been my experience as a clinician that, the more serious the events that you’re discussing with people, the more the language shifts towards what you might describe as the religious. So, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder—that’s a good example—or cases of serious child abuse or t…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place. People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil. I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beli…”— Jay Austin, nytimes.com
“This is how it works now. Look around. There is no more good, there is no more bad, right or wrong. It’s us or them, kill or be killed.”— Brian Buckner, Chris Manawa, Lorenzo James Henrie, imdb.com
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Yemi: Leave this church now, Eko. Go, now. Mr. Eko: Yemi, I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world.”— Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Mr. Eko, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, imdb.com
“There’s no such thing as good guys. There’s just guys.”— Chris Kelley, Tulip O'Hare, Ruth Negga, imdb.com
“You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are d…”— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com
“Everybody has got good and evil in them. I’d like to be 100% evil, but I can’t. I’m too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it. it causes me headaches and stuf…”— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com
“We're all the heroes of our own story. Without even realizing, we're probably the bad guy in someone else's.”— Sean Cummings, Leroy O'Neil, Zachary Ray Sherman, imdb.com
“The reason that Harry Potter can withstand Voldemort is that he's got a piece of him. He's been touched by it. The way you keep psychopaths at bay is to develop the inner psychopath so you know one when you see one. That's a voluntary thing, a set of tools you have at your disposal, which is a full…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“Much of my education has been about grasping nuance, shades of gray. Resisting the urge to oversimplify the complexity of human motivation. This year has taught me that, actually, a lot of what really matters comes down to good people and bad people. And these are bad people.”— Susan Hennessey, twitter.com
“I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can’t exist without the other.”— Donna Tartt, Boris Pavlikovsky, amazon.com
“A Warrior knows that an angel and a devil are both competing for his sword hand. The devil says: You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid. The angel says: You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid. The Warrior is surprised. Both the angel and the devil ha…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com