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All religions are true but none are literal. — Joseph Campbell

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. — John Rawls

Whether someone's a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Parsi, they are foremost a human being. And that entitles them to a morality and kindness. — Sulaiman Dawood

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

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking. — Jonathan Haidt

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. — Sigrid Undset

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams

We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live. — Marty Rubin

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. — Jeanne Shaheen

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men. — Voltaire

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

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. — Richard Dawkins

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart — Timothy Keller

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe. — Chris Hedges

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. — Alexander Pope

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence. — Voltaire

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. — Frans De Waal

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Morality is but the vestibule of religion. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society. — Nelson Rockefeller

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. — H.L. Mencken

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. — Irving Stone

Religion gets in the way of morality. — Kim Campbell