Religion And Morality Quotes

The average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. — Mary McCarthy

Morality has nothing to do with religion," she says. "You can do the right thing and not believe in God at all. — Jodi Picoult

Religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun. — Emma Goldman

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

...atheism leaves no room for excuses... — Travis Culliton

Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). — Reid A. Ashbaucher

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

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion. — John Adams

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington

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 happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged. — Karl Kraus

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

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. — Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. — George Bernard Shaw

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

[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