Moral Purpose Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of…
— Archibald MacLeish
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We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because…
— Al Gore
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Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning,…
— Michael Fullan
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To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes…
— James MacGregor Burns
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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral…
— Carl Jung
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a…
— Donald Worster
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claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of…
— Joseph Conrad
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
— Thomas Huxley
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your…
— Ayn Rand
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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to…
— Ayn Rand
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with…
— Ayn Rand
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
— Aristotle
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An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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To make our moral purpose efficient and useful, our minds must be as wide-awake and penetrating as possible.
— Senora Roy
Who Wrote These Moral Purpose Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Moral Purpose Quotes as follows: