The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Kenzaburo Oe

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Byron White

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
Michael Burgess

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
George Pataki

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
James Madison

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
David Hume

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
Pat Robertson

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler