Ancient Quote by Jonathan Swift

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

— Jonathan Swift

That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality…

— Steven Pinker

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

— William Blake

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended…

— Thomas Paine

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other…

— Daniel Webster

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted…

— H. L. Mencken

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

— Havelock Ellis

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

— Christopher Hitchens