Top 1200 Moral Compass Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

To me, drone use is a moral issue.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

A true war story is never moral.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Ris has gone through the whole spectrum of personal change and has had the longest road of all. And in the end she chooses to come back to the world, to guide, and to help, and to open the eyes of those who are suffering. In that is her true strength and humorous wisdom. I really do like her a whole lot.

I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.