24 Quotes About Morality-without-religion

Morality is to Scriptures, what Innovation is to Comic-Books.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

It's a sin only if it harms you

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

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.

Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us.

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.