Quotes About Ethics

I don't approve of religion.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Scientology...is not a religion.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

We need a new religion.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

Without God all things are permitted.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.