Matthew Stover Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

There is no rational creature which is not capable both of good and evil

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

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.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

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

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?

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.