Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

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.

It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

Evil to some is always good to others

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

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

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

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

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

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

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.