Character Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Herbert Read

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

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

— Christopher Hitchens

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

— Matthew Arnold

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

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 but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin