Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.” — Jon Erickson Copy Share Image
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of standing above temptations,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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