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

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.

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

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

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.

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

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.