Top 1200 Moral Compass Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

No one can dictate purpose to another. We discover it for ourselves. Typically leaders know what makes them tick so they do have a purpose, be it to advance their career, achieve some wealth, and be recognized for their efforts. Where they need help is reminding themselves of why they chose their career and their company. They also need to decide periodically if they need to do something new and different. Purpose is an inner compass that points us in the right direction.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.