Pat Robertson Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.