T. J. Miller Quotes

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

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.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.