Authors:

Moral Development Quotes

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Moral Development, Intellectual
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

Paul Kurtz
Moral Development, Creative, Excellence

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual, Taken, Moral Development

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

James P. Comer
Children, Moral Development, Self

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

Thane Rosenbaum
Law, Moral Development, Order

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Simon Baron-Cohen
Children, Moral Development, Punishment
Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.75, Basic Books

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Anatol Rapoport
Moral Development, Civilization, Community

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Race, Moral Development, Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.6, The Floating Press

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

Gary L. Francione
Animal, Moral Development, Civilization

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Ayn Rand
Moral Development, Intellectual, Selfishness
Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.7, Penguin

You May Also Like: