William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

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

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some individuals … while the same acts are immoral for others …

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

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

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.