Quotes About Ethics

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

All bibles are man-made.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

I love religion but I don't need it for votes.