Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

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.

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

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

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

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

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.