Hans Bender Quotes

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 a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

The idea of good and evil is a myth created by the politicians, the priests, and all those who have an interest to keep it at their mercy.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

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

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

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

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.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

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