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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

— Kevin Costner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

— Stellan Skarsgard

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

— John Dewey

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

— Peter Dinklage

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

— Jan Karon

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

— Vincent Cassel

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

— David Oyelowo

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

— Karl Barth

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

— Blake Lively