Alfie Kohn Quotes
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
Alfie Kohn
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Daniel Craig
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Salman Rushdie
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Gary Bauer
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
Gary Hamel
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.
James Arthur
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I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.
Ivar Giaever
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
Tawni O'Dell
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[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
H. L. Mencken
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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
Alfie Kohn