Charles Stross Quotes

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

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.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

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

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

"I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.