Quotes About Ethics

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

God primes the pump of obligation.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.