Above Good and Evil/Quotes

Above all else, my children, be hard. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

My either/or does not denote in the first instance the choice between good and evil, it denotes the choice whereby one chooses good and evil or excludes them.

—Kierkegaard

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

—The Revolt of the Angels, Anatole France

You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.

—Jadis, The White Witch, The Magician's Nephew

The morality of my activities escapes me.

—Doctor Manhattan, Watchmen

Morals are for men, not gods.

—Gary Mitchell, Where No Man Has Gone Before

What's good for me is right.

—William Edward Hickman, serial killer, and Ayn Rand's personal hero.

I don't bother with petty labels such as 'good' and 'evil. Why should I? I am much more concerned with 'necessary' and 'unnecessary'.

—'Lord Doom, Evil Overlord and Well-Intentioned Extremist, The Global Guardians PBEM Universe

You would seek to punish me? I am beyond good and evil.

—Galactus

Integrity
Truth, loyalty are private virtues; kings
Do as they will.

—Atreus, Thyestes

There is no good and evil... there is only power, and those too weak to seek it...

—Quirinus Quirrell (possessed by Lord Voldemort), Harry Potter

Good and evil are subjective things, meaningful only within a given ethical perspective. There is no such thing as absolute evil unless you believe in the existence of an absolute moral code. If then, by soft deontological approaches it is possible for heroes to be good, or strictly speaking doing the less of two evils.

—- unknown

Crusade: The feeling that what you are doing is not only right, not only necessary, but intrinsic to the Universe. It's... indescribable.
Shadehawk: Right!?
Shadehawk: You can't be trying to take the moral high ground here. Yeah, they're bad guys, but think about all the innocent people are going to die to this!?
Crusade: What? Oh no, nono. Obviously I don't mean morally right. I mean right as in correct. True. Factual.
Crusade: It's simple, really. Two plus two is four. The capital of Texas is Austin.
Crusade: And humanity only truly thrives in the grip of massive armed conflict.

—Antihero for Hire