Ability Quote by Anne Cassidy

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be…

— Paul Bloom

Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse…

— Edwin J Delattre

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

— Mignon McLaughlin

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

— Jean Piaget

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that…

— Michael Sandel

The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires…

— Nomy Arpaly

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

— Sarah Silverman

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

— Cara Buono

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

— Louise Hart

The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us that the…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one…

— Jean Piaget

We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults

— Lord Rees