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 … - Anthony Burgess

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

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches [things] I had done...and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.