Richard Dawkins Quotes

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.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Evil to some is always good to others

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Good and evil lay side by side.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .