William Bernbach Quotes

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history…. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.