Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

Each man must grant himself … the morality that suits him.

'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.