“Believe me, no one is completely good. Similarly, no one is completely evil. It depends on where you stand, and how you look at it. Protagonists and antagonists only exist in fiction.”

— Titon Rahmawan

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“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

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“.. the thing was to choose one [a ready-made object] that you were not attracted by.... and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough... [My intention was to] completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

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“Like you, I believe strongly that where there is a revolutionary element expressed in action, one must act resolutely. My reading of Indian history has led me to believe that a Government founded so completely as ours is upon prestige can stand almost anything except the suspicion of weakness.”

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930) British politician

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“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“Evil is relative, Annalist. You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”

Glen Cook The Black Company

Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (pp. 192-193)

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

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“You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

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“Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

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“The younger one looked to be completely useless.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

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