Atheism Quote by Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some…

— Catherine Wilson

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

— Lafcadio Hearn

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as…

— David Hume

“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting now that…

— T.H. White

Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have…

— African Spir

“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

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

“The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton