Atheism Quote by Paul Kurtz

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no spirituality without ethics

— Jonathan Wittenberg

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.”

— Simon du Plock

No moral value is greater than humanity.

— Anonymous

“ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and…

— Donald Rothberg

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

— Herbert Spencer

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

— Anonymous

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

— Aldo Leopold

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

— Albert Schweitzer

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi