Germaine de Staël Quotes

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

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.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

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

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.