Quotes About Ethics

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Only religion can lead to such evil.