Accompany Quote by 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

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

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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— George Washington

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

— Frans de Waal