Quotes About Ethics

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.

The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running for president. How reliable was he at keeping promises? How much moral responsibility did he feel to help those less fortunate than he? By the end of the election, I felt I'd done my job.

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.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

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.

Real religion is no religion at all.

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

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.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

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

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

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.