Quotes About Ethics

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.