William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

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

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

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.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

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

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

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

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

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

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

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

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.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

I think evil is very relative.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.