Carice van Houten Quotes

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I think evil is very relative.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.