Quotes about Ethics
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
— John Adams
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
— Alexander Hamilton
All true religion must stand on true morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
— Henri Nouwen
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