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Quotes About Choice

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.
~ Anthony Burgess
Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien
~ Anthony Burgess
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. And I see that clearly—that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.
~ Anthony Burgess
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?
~ Anthony Burgess
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?
~ Anthony Burgess
The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
~ Anthony Burgess
Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
~ Anthony Burgess
but,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies,and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self... But what I do I do because I like to do.
~ Anthony Burgess
A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
~ Anthony Burgess
Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeño 6655321. Ser bueno puede llega a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que puede ser una afirmación muy contradictoria. ¿Qué quiere Dios, el bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien.
~ Anthony Burgess
Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
~ Anthony Burgess
Ser bom pode não ser agradável, 6655321. Pode ser horrível ser bom. E quando digo isto a você, eu compreendo como soa contraditório. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O que é que Deus quer? Deus quer a bondade ou a escolha da bondade? O homem que escolhe o mal é talvez de uma certa forma melhor do que aquele a quem a bondade é imposta.
~ Anthony Burgess
Iyi bir insan olmak çok da hoÅŸ olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunç olabilir. Bunu sana söylerken, kulaÄŸa ne kadar çeliÅŸkili geldiÄŸini biliyorum...Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi?
~ Anthony Burgess
Choice,' rumbled a rich deep goloss. I viddied it belonged to the prison charlie. 'He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
~ Anthony Burgess
El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.
~ Anthony Burgess
Ya no es un malhechor. Tampoco es una criatura capaz de una elección moral.
~ Anthony Burgess
A bondade vem de dentro. A bondade é algo que se escolhe. Quando um homem perde a capacidade de escolha, deixa de ser homem.
~ Anthony Burgess
is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. 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.
~ Anthony Burgess
He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
~ Anthony Burgess
Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo
~ Anthony Burgess
İyilik seçilemeyen bir ÅŸeydir. İnsan seçemediÄŸinde insanl?ktan ç?kar. (syf. 73 – 74)
~ Anthony Burgess
Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.
~ Anthony Burgess
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?
~ Anthony Burgess
Hay pecado supongo, pero el castigo fue del todo desproporcionado. Te han convertido en algo que ya no es una criatura humana. Ya no estás en condiciones de elegir. Estás obligado a tener una conducta que la sociedad considera aceptable, y eres una máquina que sólo puede hacer bien.
~ Anthony Burgess