Thomas Huxley Quotes

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.