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Anthony Burgess Quotes

Anthony Burgess quotes about good

English Novelist, Writer February 25, 1917 – November 25, 1993

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If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil. Anthony Burgess
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Anthony Burgess
They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools... Anthony Burgess
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321. Anthony Burgess
What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop? Anthony Burgess
Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good..."
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. Anthony Burgess
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. ..."
Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he..."
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess

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