Matthew Stover Quotes

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

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

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

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

It's easy to get into the grey zone [of ethics].

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.