Character Quote by Christopher Hitchens

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential…

— Alan Dershowitz

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for…

— Albert Einstein

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I…

— Rachel Caine

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing…

— David Hume

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

— Jonathan Sacks

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…

— Richard Dawkins

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of…

— Immanuel Kant