Quotes About Ethics

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

Religion will never show the way.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ?religion? mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.