Duality of Man Quotes

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

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

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to us.

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

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

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.