Breadth Quote by Anatol Rapoport

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as…

— Henry George

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further…

— Mark Goulston

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

— Larry Niven

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its…

— Roger Scruton

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible…

— Mahatma Gandhi