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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

— Lafcadio Hearn

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

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

— Frans de Waal

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

— Huston Smith

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The greater the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Religious Morality Is Mostly Below the Belt”

— John Brockman (Ed

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

— Barack Obama

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

— Henry Ward Beecher