Quotes about Ethics
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
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