George Eliot Quotes

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!

He that is warme, thinkes all so.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Wrong is for other people.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

There is no subject on which there is a greater habitual difference of judgment between a man judging for himself, and the same man judging for other people.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

Moral: It all depends.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.