Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

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.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

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

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

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.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

I think evil is very relative.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.