George Washington Quotes

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Morality is a social necessity

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.