Quotes About Ethics

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.