Moral Quotes · Page 22

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

— Andrew Fastow

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

— Robert Baden-Powell

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

— Morton Blackwell

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

— Colin Powell

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

— Angela Sidney

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

— Texas Guinan

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy,

— Gary Haugen

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place…

— Alexander Pushkin

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The…

— Billy Graham

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

— Michael Shermer

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders,…

— Malcolm Gladwell

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

— Cornel West

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the…

— Friedrich Schiller

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should…

— Alan Dershowitz

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very…

— Richard Dawkins

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate…

— Bhagat Singh

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works…

— Esther Dyson

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,…

— Sallust

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even…

— John Dewey

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous…

— Thomas Huxley

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was…

— Alicia Silverstone

It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply…

— Joseph Brodsky

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady,…

— Lewis B. Smedes

Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral…

— Ari Shavit

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be…

— Swami Vivekananda

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…

— Aristotle

But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel.…

— William Lane Craig

Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

— Simon Bolivar

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

— Anonymous

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

— Ilona Andrews

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

— Lord Acton

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

— Timothy Keller

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

— Anonymous

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

— Art Spander

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

— Desmond Tutu