Quotes About Morality

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

I will tell you that I'm not religious.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing to do with anarchical activity, and classical mountaineering is a completely anarchical activity.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.

I'm not a religious person.

I'm not a religious person at all.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.

Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for meat at all. That's fine for them, and of course they are free to remain vegetarians and vegans and choose not to eat in vitro meat.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.