Absolutes Quote by Ellen Goodman

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

— Gerald R. Ford

“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively…

— Anne Rice

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…

— TS Eliot

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize…

— George Eliot

“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting now that…

— T.H. White

“At a deeper psychological level, the reformers' ideas of salvation introduced a major change in the way people saw their world. They could no…

— Fiona MacDonald

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old…

— Frans de Waal

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

— Frans de Waal

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

— Douglas Coupland

We become moral when we are unhappy.

— Marcel Proust