You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Jim Butcher
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and...
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Criss Jami
There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law of following good and shunning evil? Obviously, mankind. But then...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
