Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

The more...we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason, or choose evil in preference to good

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?