Aids Quote by Will Durant

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals…

— James Henry Breasted

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

— Frans de Waal

“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

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

— Huston Smith

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness,…

— Sigmund Freud

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition…

— Mark Hopkins

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin