Barbara Amiel Quotes

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

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?

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

Freedom is not the liberty do anything whatsoever. It is the freedom to do good

Bur what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A Universal license to be good.

True liberty, then, is a liberty to do everything that is right …

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

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

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.