How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Time Bandits.
Quote #7
KEVIN: Yes. Why do we have to have evil?
SUPREME BEING: Ah...I think it's something to do with free will.
God is really good at dodging questions like this, but the more formal explanation sheds a little more light on it. Good doesn't mean anything, philosophically speaking, if we're forced to do it. We have to choose to do good, and if it is a choice, then evil has to exist by default. It's not ideal—too many of us fail the test too often—but it's the only way to make genuine good mean anything.
Quote #8
SUPREME BEING: I should do something very extroverted and vengeful to you. Honestly, I'm too tired. So, I think I'll transfer you to the undergrowth department, brackens, more shrubs, that sort of thing...with a 19 percent cut in salary, backdated to the beginning of time.
RANDALL: Oh, thank you, sir.
SUPREME BEING: Yes, well, I am the nice one.
He may be good, but he feels like a senile old banker sometimes. At least his punishments are of the material variety—a cut in pay—which is something the dwarves definitely respond to.
Quote #9
DIANE: Honestly, Trevor, if you were half a man, you would've gone in there after the blender.
People often talk about the banality of evil, how it exists every day in the world and how it looks a lot more like indifference than the kind of Darth Vader-y evil we expect. Evil in the real world? It's more about parents who are more worried about their kitchen appliances than their only child.