Quotes about Ethics
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.
- Eugene Peterson
[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.
- Thomas Jefferson
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.
- David O. McKay
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
- John Adams
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
- Gordon Hinckley
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
- Theodore Roosevelt