Morality Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion…

— Livy

“God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.”

— Lucanus

“They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal…

— Steven Erikson

“In the infancy of new religions, the wise and learned commonly esteem the matter too inconsiderable to deserve their attention or regard. And when…

— Christopher Hitchens

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

— Plutarch

“God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.”

— Jack London

“Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were…

— E.R. Eddison

“We have, let us face it and admit it, little influence. We prey on them, and we take from them, and we get by;…

— Neil Gaiman

“As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth…

— Adolf Hitler

“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

“We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.”

— John Holloway

“Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?”

— Frank Herbert