Quotes About Ethics

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.