Chris Avellone Quotes

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

So whatever decision you make, you're going to be able to find stories or signs to say 'I did the right thing,' because we have to believe we did the right thing in order to survive.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

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.

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

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

A game is a series of interesting choices.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.