Moral Compass Quotes - Page 2

• While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having the government poke into your private life and your bedroom, like in Islamic countries, there are no moral compasses to tell what is right from wrong. The very notion of right and wrong has come under question. The motto is "if it feels good do it". Hedonism rules!

  Ali Sina

  Country, Islamic, Government

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Matter, Facts

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Morality, Compass

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.87, Melville House

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• The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

  Dan Ariely

  Our Society, Moral, Compass

  Dr. Dan Ariely (2013). “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

  Henry Giroux

  Principles, Needs, Moral

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

  Sharon Gannon

  Greed, Moral, Compass

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

  Ari Graynor

  Character, People, Males

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Giving, Moral, Assuming

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

  Elijah Cummings

  Struggle, Compassion, Color

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

  Denis Hayes

  Jobs, Car, Casting

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• Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

  Dennis Prager

  Broken, World, Moral

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.3, Creators Publishing

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• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

  John Perry Barlow

  Party, Waiting, Moral

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet: Interview with Aaron Davis". Planet J.H. Weekly, July 28, 2005.

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• Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

  Hershel Shanks

  Years, Holocaust, World

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

  Carol Alt

  People, Moral, Compass

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• I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all had to come from a real place that had nothing to do with my beauty or how I looked. That was very big for her.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mother, Real, Grateful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

  Keith Murray

  Hair, Mentor, My Best Friend

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• a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

  Ilona Andrews

  Teenage, Moral, Compass

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.32, Penguin

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• I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Ideas, Listening

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.87, Melville House

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• I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

  Lana Del Rey

  Girl, Wise, Mother

  "The Year in News 2012". pitchfork.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Beautiful, Father

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• There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, Opportunity, Reality

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