Quotes About Principle

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.