Quotes About Decision

Uma frigideira de saltear como deve de ser, por exemplo, deve ser capaz de causar sérios estragos cerebrais se baterem com ela na cabeça de alguém. Se têm sérias dúvidas sobre qual é que se vai amachucar – a cabeça da vítima ou a sua frigideira – então atirem a frigideira para o lixo.

Sometimes you see the uninviting door and just have to go through it.

Todas las noches, durante un par de segundos, y a lo largo de algunos metros, dejaba mi vida en suspenso. Porque según cuál fuera la siguiente canción que sonara en la radio, decidía dar un volantazo en el momento apropiado y seguir disparado hacia casa, a toda velocidad, o enderezar al hijo de puta y precipitarme hacia el barranco y el océano.

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

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.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?

There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?

Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.

He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want woodness (goodness) or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange.

When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

Goodness comes from within. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.