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Quotes About Ethics

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.
~ Anthony Capella
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
~ William Godwin
Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion
~ Dennis Prager
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
~ John Updike
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.
~ Madonna Ciccone
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
~ Robert Stone
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
~ William Wilberforce
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
~ Dallas Willard
God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
~ Tyler Perry
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
~ Mark Hart
In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
For right is right, since God is God.
~ Frederick William Faber
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
~ John Ralston Saul
Principles are what people have instead of God.
~ Alexander Schmemann
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
~ Charles Colson
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.
~ Charles Darwin