Character Quote by Matthew Arnold

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

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

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion…

— Sam Harris

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

…religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

— J. M. E. McTaggart

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

— Herbert Read

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

— Frans de Waal

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings,…

— Nathaniel Culverwell

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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