Dean Ambrose Quotes

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.