Breeze Quote by Benjamin Rush

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world,…

— Bertrand Russell

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute…

— George Washington

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness,…

— Sigmund Freud

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

— William Henry Harrison