Animal Quote by Seth MacFarlane

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

— Herbert Read

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to…

— Jasper T. Scott

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society,…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then it was…

— Salman Rushdie

“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others what you…

— Peter Kropotkin

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and,…

— David G. McAfee

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some…

— Catherine Wilson

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

— Frans de Waal

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any…

— Arthur Schopenhauer