"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Would like anyone's input on this one.
I don't agree with this quote. While it is a great line from the book, I think the quote taken out of the context of the book is really dark. The quote might have been written for the antagonist or any of his followers. Personally I would hope so because the book is all about the battle between good and evil, and this quote is pretty dark and contradictory of the Harry Potter series' purpose.
"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."
-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
I really like this quote. I wonder if the author meant that goodness is something you have to choose because men are inherently evil. But then again is that contradicted by his next statement? He is saying a man who cannot choose is not a man. This could be interpreted as him saying that a man who cannot make a decision is not really a man. Comments welcome and would be highly beneficial!!!
"People couldn't become truly holy...unless they also have had the opportunity to be definitively wicked."
-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
I completely agree with this quote. People cannot be good if they don't have the opportunity, and go against it, to be evil or just bad. Without the refusal of evil, then who is to know whether the certain person is actually good? There is no way. For a person to make a moral, good, holy- or however you want to say it- decision they have to be presented with all of the options and make the correct one for themselves.
-With this branch of thinking I think that people aren't inherently good or evil, it is merely a choice that everyone makes.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
ReplyDelete-Burke, Edmund