Quotes About Morality

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.