Anthony Collins Quotes

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.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and 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.

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.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I think evil is very relative.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.