Activity Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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

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

— Herbert Read

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with…

— James Martineau

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

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

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that…

— Dalai Lama