Good and evil · Skopia

Quotes

9

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

General R. Corman

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 6.0

Political literature · Historical literature

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago · 1973

★ 6.0

Novella · Science fiction

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1886

★ 3.8

Psychological thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological thriller · Thriller

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Rope · 1948

★ 3.5

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Books

3

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

1886★ 6.9

Children of the Alley

1959★ 6.9

The Innocence of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

1911★ 6.1