Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

In true Hollywood fashion the US expounds its interests and power in the world as the triumph of good over evil. The media dismisses any ambiguity in a truly complex world. Instead America's propagandists hand down the Manichean dichotomy - "us and them," "good and bad," "those who are for us and those who are against us.

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.

I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.