Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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

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.

If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

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

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

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

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

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.

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.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

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

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

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

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.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

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

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.