Character Quote by Linus Torvalds

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

— George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

— Ashly Lorenzana

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Without freedom there can be no morality.

— Carl Jung

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

— Sigmund Freud

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the…

— Steven Pinker

“& experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

— Janice T. Connell

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

— Julian Baggini