
Day and Night
The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing. —
Idries Shah

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. —
Madame De Stael

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. —
Richard John Neuhaus

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. —
Jayne Anne Phillips

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

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality. —
Baron D'Holbach

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. —
Maria Edgeworth

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. —
Victor Cousin

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! —
Thomas Huxley

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

Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion. —
Juliet Gael

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. —
Frances Power Cobbe
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[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 must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. —
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. —
John Adams
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. —
Jeanne Shaheen

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

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test. —
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty. —
John Adams

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between
religion and morality. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. —
Joseph Story

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

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law. —
Criss Jami

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

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. —
Abraham Lincoln

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. —
Christopher Hitchens