Character Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand…

— Dennis Prager

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

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties,…

— William Matthews

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting…

— Thomas Jefferson

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I…

— Rachel Caine

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry…

— Barbara Ehrenreich