Animal Quote by Herbert Read

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

— Seth MacFarlane

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to…

— Jasper T. Scott

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

Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among…

— Herbert Read

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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