Moral Development Quotes

• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  Confucius

  Amor, Inspiración, Divertido

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• 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, Punishment, Discipline

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

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

  Anatol Rapoport

  Civilization, Community, Breadth

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

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Taken, Perception

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• El objetivo de la educación básica es el desarrollo físico, intelectual y moral de los niños a través de la artesanía.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Intellectual, Morality

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

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• Cuando los hombres se dedican a la guerra y a la conquista, las herramientas de la ciencia se vuelven tan peligrosas como una navaja en manos de un niño de tres años. No debemos condenar al hombre porque su inventiva y su paciente conquista de las fuerzas de la naturaleza estén siendo explotadas con fines falsos y destructivos. Más bien, debemos recordar que el destino de la humanidad depende enteramente del desarrollo moral del hombre.

  Albert Einstein

  Patience, Children, War

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• 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 HolmesJr.

  Race, Law, Ethics

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

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• We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

  Spir africano

  Men, Goal, Moral

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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• 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

  Intellectual, Selfishness, Individualism

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

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• 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, Self, Concern For Others

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• 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, Order, Maintaining

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• Existe una creciente preocupación social por el uso que hacemos de los no humanos para experimentos, alimentación, vestido y entretenimiento. Esta preocupación por los animales refleja tanto nuestro propio desarrollo moral como civilización como nuestro reconocimiento de que las diferencias entre humanos y animales son, en su mayor parte, diferencias de grado y no de especie.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Civilization, Differences

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• When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

  Frank Pittman

  Boys, Men, Guilt

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• Muchos humanistas han defendido que la felicidad implica una combinación de hedonismo y desarrollo moral creativo; que una vida exuberante fusiona excelencia y disfrute, significado y enriquecimiento, emoción y cognición.

  Paul Kurtz

  Creative, Excellence, Atheism

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• It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

  George Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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