Good Vs Bad Quotes

“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Flashes of disbelief trekked in multiple directions. Each one faded into despair.”
― Steve Rush, Lethal Impulse

“But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?"
"I hope so. I hope we are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events, however, be aware that you're in the presence of a peddler of fiction.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We were always meant to live in darkness, even with the light. Five billion years from now the sun will stop shining and the darkness will win. It's supposed to win. It's inevitable. Darkness will come and the world will become a cold and sinister place to live in, if it isn't already.”
― Arti Manani

“Movies are not good or bad because of their subjects but because of their treatments of their subjects. Any plot can be made into trash, and probably any plot can be made into greatness.”
― Roger Ebert

“It is therefore easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion. It may be a rebellion of serious thinkers against accepted clap-trap or of faddists against accepted good sense; of real artists against popular ugliness or of charlatans against civilised taste; of good men against the badness of society or of bad men against its goodness. Whichever it is, it will be unwelcome to Top People.”
― Clive Staples Lewis

“You came here [to this life] to enjoy the fullness of the creative experience. [Both smooth and rough patches]. In the process, any growth you experience adds to the growth of humanity as a whole.

What better way could there be for humans to evolve than in an environment of [contrasting experiences; dark and light] where free will stretches and pulls against rigid rules? This creative tension results in an inner urge to progress ever onward, ever upward, through winding curves and over the occasional whoop-de-doos.”
― Suzanne Giesemann, The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life

“He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.”
― Tricia Springstubb, What Happened on Fox Street