Attention Quote by Madame de Stael

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

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without…

— Robert Winston

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

— Honore de Balzac

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian…

— Sam Harris

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride…

— Samuel Richardson

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

— Voltaire

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once…

— Christopher Hitchens

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion,…

— Richard Dawkins

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

— Victor Cousin

Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle