Quotes About Morality

Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.