Francis Schaeffer Quotes

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

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.

The ideologue says “whatever is right works.” The pragmatist says “whatever works is right.”

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

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

I don't really believe in evil at all.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

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

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

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 …

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

Moral: It all depends.