#morality

"All religions are true but none are literal."

"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything."

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."

"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

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

"Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though."

"Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires."

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

"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."

"We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe."

"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."

"Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose."