Character Quote by Kelli Jae Baeli

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“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

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

— Herbert Read

“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

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be…

— Paul Bloom

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

— Frans de Waal

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Richard Dawkins