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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
— Irving Kristol
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
— Immanuel Kant
The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.
— Albert Einstein
Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ...
— Peter Singer
Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.
— Abhijit Naskar
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
— Francis Bacon
The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.
— Abhijit Naskar
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
— Walter Savage Landor
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
— Huston Smith
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
— Steven Weinberg
Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child.
— Robert A. Heinlein
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Giv Herren sin Aere, giv Kongen sin Told.
— Petter Dass
If you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.
— Gary L. Thomas
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
religion attempts to influence our mind-set before we are tempted, by creating moral education and - let's not forget - guilt.
— Dan Ariely
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
— John Stuart Mill
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
— James Martineau
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
— Will Durant
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
— Thomas Jefferson
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
— Kane
Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
— C.V. Wedgwood
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
— Benjamin Franklin
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
— Daniel Dennett
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
— C. G. Jung
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
— Richard Rohr
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
— John Dewey
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
— Christopher Hitchens
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
— Swami Sivananda
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
— Robert W. Cox
No man's religion ever survives his morals.
— Robert South
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
— Albert Einstein
God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
— Rachel Caine
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.
— A.W. Tozer
[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
— Joe Lieberman
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
— Plato