Quotes About Ethics

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.

Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.