Conviction Quote by TS Eliot

We become moral when we are unhappy.

— Marcel Proust

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of having done…

— Joseph Goldstein

“We aren't born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the…

— George Washington

“We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.”

— Stefan Klein

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

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which their impulses…

— Bertrand Russell

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

— Douglas Coupland

“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