Compassionate Quote by Sharon Salzberg

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

— Dalai Lama

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

— Miriam Toews

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

— Jonathan Sacks

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

— Karen Armstrong

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

— Kane

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion,…

— Richard Dawkins

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

Humanity is self-supportive and does not require to be comforted with principles of any religion,caste, creed or sect.

— Anuj Somany

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to…

— Benjamin Franklin

“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.”

— Allan Lokos