Absorb Quote by Paul Bloom

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

— Gerald R. Ford

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

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

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

“If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture…

— Francis J. Beckwith

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

— John Hurt

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions,…

— Peter Singer

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Maurice Barres

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless…

— James Dobson

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that…

— Jeffrey Tucker

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold