Graham Greene Quotes on Morality
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.... It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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'God save us always,' I said, 'from the innocent and the good.'
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He'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Sooner or later...one has to take sides - if one is to remain human.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.