... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Social progress needs moral sensitivity as much as it needs a sense of duty.
- In plain terms
- Improving society needs caring feelings and a sense of doing what is right.
- What can you take from it?
- Moral feeling and duty together drive social improvement.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can society improve without moral feeling?
- Is duty enough on its own?
Another view
Sometimes duty alone is enough to drive necessary action.
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