Tao Lin Quotes

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

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

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

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

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.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

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.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

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

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 …

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.

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.

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

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

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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

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

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.