Chris Bauer Quotes

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

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?

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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.

I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.