Moral Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

— Richard Dawkins

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

— Richard Dawkins

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in…

— Richard Dawkins

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

— Richard Dawkins

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in…

— Richard Dawkins

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually…

— Richard Dawkins

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very…

— Richard Dawkins

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass…

— Richard Dawkins

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,…

— Richard Dawkins

For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos…

— Richard Dawkins

I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it…

— Richard Dawkins

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and…

— Richard Dawkins

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a…

— Richard Dawkins

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false…

— Richard Dawkins

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…

— Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is…

— Richard Dawkins