Anthony Burgess Quotes About Evil
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Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
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If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
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