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Moral Growth Quotes

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Alfie Kohn
Punishment, Moral Growth, Erode

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass
Patriotic, Reflection, Moral Growth
Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.565, Chicago Review Press

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Moral Growth, Comfort
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

Robert Wright
Moral Growth, Names, People
Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.181, Hachette UK

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Mahatma Gandhi
Moral Growth, Names, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Truth, Moral Growth
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

Michael Sandel
Children, Opportunity, Moral Growth
Source: www.pbs.org

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