Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may…

— Alan Keyes

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

— Gerald R. Ford

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

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

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

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think…

— Allen W. Wood

“A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely the elements which are also the source of the…

— Michael Polanyi

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

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

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance…

— Omar N. Bradley