Absolute certainty Quote by Richard Stallman

“Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is…

— Derek Parfit

“Ethics involves the question of authority. The Christian lives under the sovereignty of God, who alone may claim lordship over us. Christian ethics is…

— R.C. Sproul

“Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards.…

— Stifyn Emrys

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

— C. S. Lewis

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any…

— Albert Schweitzer

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral…

— Robert M. Pirsig

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of…

— Immanuel Kant

“What is the moral meaning of our own gods?”

— June Jordan

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

— Aldo Leopold

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able…

— Dalai Lama

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

— Arthur Koestler

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not…

— Bertrand Russell