“Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.”
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
“Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.”
“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”