Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

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.

As I have pointed out it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

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.

It may be that religion is dead and if it is we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

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.

Moral values and a culture and a religion maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

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

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its Churches has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

So after the Lewinsky scandal everything changed and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time which were social to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.