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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.

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
Order, Evil, Choices
Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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
Orange, Evil, Lovely
Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

Anthony Burgess
Order, Evil, Choices
Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Anthony Burgess
Evil, Clockwork, Inhuman
Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Anthony Burgess
Men, Evil, Dystopia

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