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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

— Harlan Coben

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

— Philip Zimbardo

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.

— Mencius

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

— Lars von Trier

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

— Charles Van Doren

Evil is whatever distracts.

— Franz Kafka

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

— Madeleine Albright

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

— Konrad Lorenz

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

— Stephen King

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

— Samuel Butler