Quotes About Morality

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

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

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.