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Secular Morality Quotes

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

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Author:Aristotle

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“…humanist principles—especially those that emphasize human worth and dignity, the imperative to respect human rights, reverence for life, and the intrinsic ability of humans to be caring and just—provide the foundations of secular moral orientations.”

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Book:What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

Source: What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

“The only crime is pride.”

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Author:Sophocles

“A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.”

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Author:Paul Eldridge

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”

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Author:Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. [Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”

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Book:Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson