Appreciation Quote by Linus Torvalds

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

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

— Penn Jillette

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

— Ian Mcewan

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard…

— Lynn Coady

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 may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

— Frances Power Cobbe

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious.…

— John Shelby Spong

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that…

— Patton Oswalt

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

— Rachel Griffiths

If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

— Harold S. Kushner