Scott Wilder Quotes

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

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 …

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

Power shifts your thinking from what is right and wrong to what is necessary

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

There are no moral victories.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.