Average Quote by Mary McCarthy

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 does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

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

— Richard Dawkins

A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral…

— David Lowery

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Herbert Read

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

— Matthew Arnold

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