Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

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.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

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

But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

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

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

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

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

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

There's no such thing as morality.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

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.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.