Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

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

I think evil is very relative.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

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.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

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

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

You can't slice up morals.

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

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Fear is the mother of morality.