Agree Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions…

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

— Bill Gates

“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.”

— Neil Gaiman

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what…

— Richard Dawkins

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are…

— Huston Smith

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence…

— Alan Jeskin

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold