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It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

— Jane Asher

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

— Matthew Arnold

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

— Leon Wieseltier

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

— Robert Winston

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

— Jack Dee

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

— Maria Edgeworth

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

— Richard Dawkins

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

— Auberon Herbert

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

— Albert Einstein

✗Opposing Perspectives

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

— Dennis Prager