American culture Quote by George Harrar

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in…

— Immanuel Kant

I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are…

— Marilynne Robinson

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality…

— Pauline Kael

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

— Jonathan Haidt

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate and magnify…

— Currer Bell

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if…

— Stephen Chbosky