Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.