Quotes About Morality

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Religion will never show the way.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Religion is bad and drugs are good.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

You cannot separate charity and religion.