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  • 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.

  • When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

    Patience   Children   War  
  • 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 (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.75, Basic Books
  • 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.

    Boys   Men   Guilt  
  • The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all 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.

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

    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons
  • 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. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.6, The Floating Press
  • For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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