Before you talk to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people;  Before you tell me how much you love your God show me how much you love all His children;  Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors.  In the end, I'm not interested in what you have to tell or sell as in how you choose to live and give.

-Cory Booker

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell

-George Orwell

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

-Karl Kraus

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one

-Voltaire

States are not moral agents, people are and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions

-Noam Chomsky

Politics have no relation to morals.

- Machiavelli

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. 

-John Kenneth Galbraith

You don't need religion to have morals.  If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion

-Anonymous

When you are in a position to not be a nice person, that's when you find out who you really are.

-Hugh Hefner

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

-George Washington

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; Whoever sleeps long, does not sin; Whoever does not sin, enters Heaven!  Thus, let us drink beer!

-Martin Luther

Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.

-Judy Corcoran

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies

-Lester B. Pearson

It's not the immortal actions by few that upsets me, it's the acceptance of those actions by many

-Anonymous

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behaviour to sin; he does not say, “You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.” He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. An analogous way of treating human beings is, however, considered to be contrary to the truths of our holy religion. 

- Bertrand Russell

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all.

 ― Arthur C. Clarke