Subjective Morality Quotes

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

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

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

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.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

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.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

I don't really believe in evil at all.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Moral: It all depends.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.