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

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

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world you must make that attempt. That's morality that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Every society and religion has rules for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists as in art of drawing the line somewhere.

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.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.

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.

Teach a child what is wise that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful that is religion!

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and because of what the law was they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Morality and its victim the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible more criminal than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise it is said and principles should never be compromised.

If any civilization is to survive it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Obviously marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.