Getting better Quote by Francis J. Beckwith

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Gerald R. Ford

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

— Matthew Arnold

“Rather than offering a strict moral code to live by, popular culture today provides more of a moral posture.”

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either…

— Paul Bloom

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

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Civilization depends on morality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

— Rebecca Goldstein

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness,…

— Sigmund Freud