Quotes about Ethics
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.
- CS Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is civilization, the highest.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
- Georgia Harkness
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.
- Thomas Jefferson
I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
- George Eliot
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
- Ayn Rand