Character Quote by Bertrand Russell

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

— Paul Bert

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

— I. F. Stone

“If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture…

— Francis J. Beckwith

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

— Gerald R. Ford

“The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease…

— Steven Pinker

“Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere…

— Andrew Westoll

The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that…

— James Q. Wilson

“Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted”

— Martin Luther King

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving…

— Catherine Wilson

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity…

— John Keegan

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that…

— Victor Hugo

“It has been heart-warming, in the midst of all our sadness, to see a good mix of people from different backgrounds, different cultures, different…

— Widad Akreyi