It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Society needs to elevate moral behavior to a status that is desired and imitated.
- In plain terms
- We should make being good something everyone wants to do.
- What can you take from it?
- Virtue must be culturally celebrated to spread.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is fashionable in your culture?
- How do you honor good people?
Another view
Virtue cannot be forced by trends if it conflicts with personal incentives.
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