Quotes About Moral Development

#1. We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

African Spir

#2. For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Rudolf Steiner

#3. The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Confucius

#4. The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#5. Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

George Eliot

#7. When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

Frank Pittman

#8. Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#9. Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

Paul Kurtz

#10. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Ayn Rand

#12. The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Anatol Rapoport

#13. In the hierarchy of moral development, as defined by Lawrence Kohlberg, the lowest level is "following rules only to avoid punishment." The highest level is "following rules because they are right and good.

Jerry L. Wyckoff

#14. Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

Thane Rosenbaum

#15. I've always stressed the value of autonomy for intellectual and moral development. Autonomy provides us with a sphere of discretion which we all require.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#16. The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Patrick Swift

#17. In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. As

Jack London

#19. In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

Vissarion Belinsky

#20. The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

Victoria J. Barnett

#21. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

John F. Kennedy

#22. The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen

#23. The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Kersey Graves

#24. He wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The

Edith Wharton

#25. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

David Brooks

#26. My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

#27. One of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons.

Ken Wilber

#28. Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

#29. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Hilarie Owen

#30. If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

Herrick Johnson

#31. When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

#32. There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

Joseph Conrad

#33. A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. This is what evolution means
ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater
progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

Lyman Abbott

#35. Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#36. Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

James Naismith

#37. The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Albert Einstein

#38. Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Swami Vivekananda