Terry Eagleton Quotes

Evil to some is always good to others

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.

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

I think evil is very relative.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

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

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

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

Evil is a point of view.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.