On good and evil in politics...

Diálogo tomado de All the King’s Men

- I have a question
- Shoot.
- Do you know where good comes out of?
- You tell me.
- Out of bad, that’s where good comes out of. Because you can’t make it out of anything else. Did you know that?
- No, I didn’t. [Yet, t]here’s another question I’d like to ask you. You say there’s only bad to start with and the good must come from the bad. Who’s to determine what’s good and what’s bad? You?
- Why not?
- How?
- Why, that’s easy. Just make it up as you go along.