Become Quote by Frans de Waal

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals…

— James Henry Breasted

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Herbert Read

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

— Christopher Hitchens

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