Contradictions Quote by Rachel Kushner

“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay…

— Rachel Kushner

“Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones”

— Johnny Flora

“If he were honest with himself, the cross-cultural analysis was fascinating. Nature versus nurture didn’t exist in the Angelmakers. Evil superceded all.”

— J.T. Ellison

“for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar.…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Odd people do good things. There are good and bad in all people and that’s why it’s worth appealing to the good in people.…

— Rufus Sewell

“The infinite variety of human badness.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps…

— Sebastian Faulks

“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and…

— Philip K. Dick

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.”

— Tzvetan Todorov

“People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos. We, human beings, are somewhere between…

— Cristiane Serruya

“Man allowed by God to do good and evil. That's why some of angels feel so jealous.”

— Toba Beta