Veronica Roth Quotes

I think evil is very relative.

Evil is a point of view.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

Evil to some is always good to others

Moral: It all depends.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

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.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

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

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

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?

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Never presume yours is a better morality.