Top 1200 Moral Compass Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as a provocation, but I also believe that we can still have very profound creativity with a moral sense.

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.