Quotes About Ethics

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.