Character Quote by Herbert Read

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

— Herbert Read

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Julian Baggini

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

— Emile Durkheim

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

— Robert South

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

— Voltaire

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

— John Ruskin

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

“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

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition…

— Mark Hopkins