Mary MacLane Quotes

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

There is no right in acting.

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

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

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.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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.

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

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?

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

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 no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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 …

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

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 like crossing moral boundaries.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

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.

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

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