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In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. -- Thomas Erskine
Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work. -- Achille Silvestrini
I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether. -- Dalai Lama
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without. -- Dalai Lama
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion. -- Dalai Lama
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics. -- Salman Rushdie
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. -- Carol P. Christ
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. -- David Henry Hwang
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. -- Carroll Quigley
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion. -- Rudy Giuliani
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. -- Martin Seligman
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. -- Ville Valo
Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling -- Matthew Arnold
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice. -- Moncure D. Conway
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion. -- Georgia Harkness
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution. -- Herbert Spencer
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! -- Daniel Dennett
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. -- Austin Phelps
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. -- Timothy Winter
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. -- George Orwell

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