“…But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.”
Part 3, near end of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
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“I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.”
Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 300
1960s
Context: My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”
Source: Blacklisted

“Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.”
Biography at IMDB http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0471036/bio

“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”