Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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

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

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

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!

I think evil is very relative.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Wrong is for other people.

'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

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

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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

Evil depends on where you're standing.

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Evil is that which one believes of others.