Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Nobody is all good or all bad.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

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

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Nobody is all good or bad.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

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.

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

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

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

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.