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Moral Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
- Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable…
- People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have…
- Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of…
- Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac