Quotes About Morality

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

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

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

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

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

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

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.