Character Quote by Frans de Waal

“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and,…

— David G. McAfee

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then it was…

— Salman Rushdie

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

— Albert Einstein

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

— Julian Baggini

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but…

— Richard Dawkins

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.”

— Lewis N. Roe

“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we…

— Anonymous

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the…

— Steven Pinker

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