Anthony Burgess Evil Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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