Secular Morality Quotes

#1. One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that - he questioned their every faith, their every way of life - so they called it atheism.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#2. Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its member to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

Daniel Dennett

#3. Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate their reasons in strictly secular terms.

Scott Klusendorf

#4. I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle.

#5. we ought to develop and practice a secular and human morality based on logical and scientific thinking.

Dr. Ramendra

#6. To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Joseph Addison

#7. Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Margaret Mead

#8. Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

Pat Buchanan

#9. For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.

Ellen Willis

#10. Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you,
will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others,
or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

#11. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.

Olivia Laing

#12. I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

Carrot Top

#13. A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Paul Eldridge

#14. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

#15. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

#16. In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

John Quincy Adams

#17. You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

Eminem

#18. Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Nancy Pearcey

#19. Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

Matthew McGrory

#20. Lukewarm people gauge their morality or 'goodness' by comparing themselves to the secular world. They feel satisfied that while they aren't as hard-core for Jesus as so-and-so, they are nowhere as horrible as the guy down the street.

Francis Chan

#21. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Thomas Paine

#22. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Al-Ma'arri

#23. Mr. Long Fingers. Mr. Womb-Ticklers

Fanny Merkin

#24. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.

Bryant McGill

#26. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Pythagoras