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Quotes About Morality

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
~ Evan Esar
Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
~ Nick Denton
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
~ Yves Behar
Good and bad are not really relevant to me.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
~ Thomas Szasz
One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.
~ Jerry Heller
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
~ Saint Ambrose
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
~ Duke of Wellington
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
~ Lucretius
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
~ John Quincy Adams
Religion is such a path with people.
~ Travis Fimmel
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
~ Richard Dawkins
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
~ Minna Antrim
I believe religion is important for every person.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.
~ Aleister Black
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
~ Irena Sendler
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
~ B. R. Hayden
Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.
~ Naseeruddin Shah
All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.
~ Jimmy Barnes
All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.
~ Shannon Briggs