Absolute Right And Wrong Quotes

#1. There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.

Ted Cruz

#2. Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such situations, we often continue to act as if right and wrong are the relevant yardsticks.

Kathryn Schulz

#4. I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

Jill Tweedie

#5. When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Bruce Lee

#6. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was right or wrong.

Jostein Gaarder

#8. If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Joe Biden

#9. What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. I don't have dance history or background.

Rob Kardashian

#11. In regard to the law of the state - that is, the accumulated power of society as monopolized by the state - there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society.

Hannah Arendt

#12. It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Aristotle.

#13. We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

George Carlin

#15. There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

K.J. Parker

#16. In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death. Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#17. If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

Rebecca Manley Pippert

#18. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather then relative terms.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#19. She said there was no tactful way for a naked person to cope with a runny nose, especially while dancing. Orly grudgingly agreed.

Carl Hiaasen

#20. At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

Karen Salmansohn

#21. There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Mahatma Gandhi