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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it. — Abhijit Naskar

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

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. — Henry Ward Beecher

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature. — Marcus Aurelius

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise. — Josh Billings

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

Morality does not depend on religion. — John Ruskin

Greatness should have no victims
Greatness should need no victims. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. — Abhijit Naskar

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling

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

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert

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

Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics. — Dada Bhagwan

Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know. — Seth MacFarlane

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. — Frances Power Cobbe

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

It's a sin only if it harms you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Religion gets in the way of morality. — Kim Campbell

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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