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Quotes About Behavior

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
~ H. Richard Niebuhr
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
~ John Wesley
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
~ David Nicholls
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
~ Allan H. Meltzer
Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
~ Seth MacFarlane
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
~ Benjamin Franklin
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
~ Sigmund Freud
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.
~ A. N. Wilson
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.
~ Mira Grant
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
~ William James
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ?religion? mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.
~ C. S. Lewis
A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
~ Navonne Johns
Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they're passing around a basket.
~ Steve Maraboli
Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.
~ Dean William R. Inge
The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.
~ D.R. Silva
Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.
~ Ellen O' Connell
Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket.
~ Steve Maraboli