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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

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

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

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

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.

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.