Maisie Williams Quotes

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

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?

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

There is no rational creature which is not capable both of good and evil

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

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

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

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

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

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.