Character Quote by Sam Harris

“We are being offered a psychopathic and psychotic moral attitude… it is psychopathic because this is a total detachment from the, from the well-being…

— Sam Harris

“If our research leads us to a result that reduces religion to the status of a neurosis of mankind and explains it's grandiose powers…

— Anonymous

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

— Frans de Waal

“The most serious injury is done in childhood. Our cruel waste of the nerve force of children is only more pathetic than it is…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

— Sigmund Freud

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it…

— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

“Indoctrinating a child with fundamentalist religious doctrine warps their instinctive attributes and causes them to contradict reason by default.”

— Al Stefanelli

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

— Sam Harris

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

— Kedar Joshi

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral…

— Ayn Rand

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of…

— Howard Moskowitz