Ray Bradbury Quotes

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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

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

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

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.