Auberon Herbert Quotes

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

There is no right in acting.

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

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.