Morality Without Religion Quotes

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”
― Max Weber, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

“I get my limits from a rational consideration of the consequences of my actions, that's how I determine what's moral. I get it from a foundation that says my actions have an effect on those people around me, and theirs have an effect on me, and if we're going to live cooperatively and share space, we have to recognize that impact. And my freedom to swing my arm ends ends at their nose, and that I have no right to impose my will over somebody else's will in that type of scenario. That's where I get them from. I get them from an understanding of reality, not an assertion of authority.”
― Matt Dillahunty

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”
― Isaac Asimov

“If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone will insist that they do not support male violence against women, that they believe it to be morally and ethically wrong. However, if you then explain that we cannot end male violence against women by challenging patriarchy, and that means no longer accepting the notion that men should have more rights and privileges than women because of biological difference or that men should have the power to rule over women, that is when the agreement stops. There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The Samurai lived by a code of honor, not unlike the code that you live by. It’s called the Bushido. It was never written down; was always something the Samurai knew, and it was handed down from one warrior to another. One of the tenets of the code is about justice. Not the pounding of a gavel on the bench of some judge who’s been appointed to pass judgment on people by some politician. No, malaka, this concept of justice is what you feel in your bones: to die when it is right and to strike when it is right.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade

“Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproduction’ and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerate’ could come from any work on racial hygiene.

Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social Darwinist views, but his rejection of the Judeo-Christian morality of compassion for the weak. Self-creation required hardness towards oneself: a strong will imposing coherence on conflicting impulses. It also requires hardness on others. Conflicts between the self-creative projects of different people made inevitable the attempt to dominate others. The whole of life was a struggle in which victory went to the brave and to the strong-willed. Noble human qualities, linked with the will to power, were brought out in combat but atrophied in peace. Compassion was weakness, cowardice and self-deception. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on it was poison. In drawing these consequences from his beliefs about the death of God and from Social Darwinism, Nietzsche provided the part of the Nazi belief system which ‘justified’ the cruel steps they took to implement their other beliefs.”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.”
― Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

“The causes which ruined the Republic of Athens illustrate the connection of ethics with politics rather than the vices inherent to democracy. A State which has only 30,000 full citizens in a population of 500,000, and is governed, practically, by about 3000 people at a public meeting, is scarcely democratic. The short triumph of Athenian liberty, and its quick decline, belong to an age which possessed no fixed standard of right and wrong. An unparalleled activity of intellect was shaking the credit of the gods, and the gods were the givers of the law. It was a very short step from the suspicion of Protagoras, that there were no gods, to the assertion of Critias that there is no sanction for laws. If nothing was certain in theology, there was no certainty in ethics and no moral obligation. The will of man, not the will of God, was the rule of life, and every man and body of men had the right to do what they had the means of doing. Tyranny was no wrong, and it was hypocrisy to deny oneself the enjoyment it affords. The doctrine of the Sophists gave no limits to power and no security to freedom; it inspired that cry of the Athenians, that they must not be hindered from doing what they pleased, and the speeches of men like Athenagoras and Euphemus, that the democracy may punish men who have done no wrong, and that nothing that is profitable is amiss. And Socrates perished by the reaction which they provoked.”
― John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

“For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: "Mystery!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are the products of careful deliberation and that our specific moral acts, such as deciding to give to charity or visit a friend in the hospital—or for that matter, deciding to shoplift or shout a racist insult out
of a car window—are grounded in conscious decision-making. But this is said to be mistaken. As Jonathan Haidt argues, we are not judges; we are lawyers, making up explanations after the deeds have been done. Reason is impotent. "We celebrate rationality," agrees de Waal, "but when push comes to shove we assign it little weight.”
― Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less - it is law-less - it is boundless - it's simply your whole being, beyond conditioning, beyond norms, beyond stereotypes, beyond definitions, beyond theories, beyond intellectualism, beyond ideologies, beyond sects and beyond images. That morality has no Naskar in it - it has no Nietzsche in it - it has no Schopenhauer in it - it has no bible, no quran, no vedas in it - nor has it any messiah or prophet whatsoever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“But the fact that highly secular nations and states fare so well compared to religious nations and states, and the fact that many nations have seen violent crime and other social pathologies decrease over time as secularity has simultaneously increased, does prove that morality clearly doesn’t hinge upon the existence of God, or require belief in God.”
― Phil Zuckerman, What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

“It's a sin only if it harms you”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Morality established from Science is the key to understanding Coexistence.
Science based on Morality is the reason we have prejudice for things we don't understand.”
― Anonymous

“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel like defecating and how to perform the act of defecation, before you actually go to defecate! You simply feel it and go defecating. The same is with morality. You don't ask a scientist, a philosopher or a priest what morality really is, and how to perform it. You simply feel it and act on it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“When the spirit shines with the flames of morality, there remains no question, confusion or compliance - all that there persists, is you being the manifestation of morality absolute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“Without God, there is no right and wrong ... Anything goes. Life loses value, and with that loss of value comes a loss of societal strength.”
― Ben Shapiro, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

“Politics is high-octane circus of depreciating morality.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“It was grace. In those who were always honest, the dlPFC, vlPFC, and ACC were in veritable comas when the chance to cheat arose. There's no conflict. There's no working hard to do the right thing. You simply don't cheat.”
― Robert Sapolsky

“False realities lead to wrong moralities”
― Zary Greer Manning

“Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales que ahora se hallan corrompidos, toda vez que no pueden ser puestos en práctica. Y cuando la moral se corrompe, entonces es peor que carecer de ella.”
― T.H. White

“الأخلاق والعادات والتقاليد نسبية، وما هو مقبول في مكان قد لا يعد كذلك في مكانٍ آخر من هذا العالم، وليس من حق أي ثقافة أن تدعي احتكار الأخلاق والصلاح، فقد عرفت بأن مجتمعات شرق آسيا راقية جداً، تفوق في أخلاقياتها الأمم الأخرى التي تدين بالأخلاق الإبراهيمية – التي تحاول احتكار كل شيء لنفسها، وعرفت بأن الأخلاق والقوانين وليدة الحاجة الإنسانية وأنها قد وجدت منذ الأزل، فلسنا بحاجة لمن يخبرنا بأن السرقة عمل شائن، لأن أنانية كل شخص في الحفاظ على ما جناه بعرق جبينه ستوجب ولادة قانون يمنع الاستحواذ على ممتلكات الغير. ذلك القانون وليد فكرة الملكية الخاصة التي جاءت من سومر، وكذلك الأمر فيما يخص الاستيلاء على الأراضي. إن مثل هذه الأفكار هي الأساس الطبيعي الموجود في كل المجتمعات على اختلاف ثقافاتها، لأنها أمور فطرية سابقة لكل فكر ديني، وأن تجاوزها ينشأ من التبرير الواعي النابع من الحاجة الماسة، أو الجشع البشع.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Morality is to Scriptures, what Innovation is to Comic-Books.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in the first place. And this original incarnation of the human mind upon the death of the second hand existence, delivers the world the ultimate bodily manifestation of morality absolute and the liberty it encompasses.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute