Quotes about Ethics
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
— George Washington
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
— George Washington
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
— CS Lewis
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
— Abraham Lincoln
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
— Thomas Jefferson
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
— George Washington
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
— Frank Herbert
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
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