Morality Quote by Voltaire

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

— Voltaire

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

— Voltaire

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

— John Ruskin

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

— Honore de Balzac

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

— Walter Savage Landor

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Christopher Hitchens

On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite…

— Eliza Leslie

Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among…

— Herbert Read