Steven Erikson Quotes

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

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

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

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

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.

Statutes against Fundamental Morality are void

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.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

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.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

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

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does