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Quotes About Morality

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Religion poisons everything good in this world.
~ Unknown
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
~ S. Parkes Cadman
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
~ Dalai Lama
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All bibles are man-made.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.
~ Immortal Technique
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.
~ Richard Dawkins
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
~ Bill Watterson
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
~ Ricky Gervais
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
~ J.R. Miller
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
~ Philip Roth
Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
~ H. Richard Niebuhr
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
~ August Strindberg
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
~ Voltaire
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
~ Robert A. Heinlein