Zhuangzi Quotes

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

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.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

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

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

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.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.