Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
Alan Dundes

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John Denham

Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
Mary Douglas

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Georges Duhamel

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
Rowan D. Williams

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
King Hussein I

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere