Character Quote by Lawrence Kohlberg

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in…

— John Dewey

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

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 every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize…

— George Eliot

It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and…

— Jonathan Haidt

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

— Robert A. Heinlein