Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

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

People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

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

The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Evil to some is always good to others

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.