Quotes About Ethics

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.