Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You can't slice up morals.

I think evil is very relative.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

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

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

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

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.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.