Character Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

— Mark Hopkins

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

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

— George Washington

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

— H. L. Mencken

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

— Herbert Read