Quotes About Moral Compass

#1. A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

Toba Beta

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

Dennis Prager

#3. I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.

Margo MacDonald

#4. I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

Billy Corgan

#5. Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.

Eddie Huang

#6. Human behavior isn't necessarily logical, nor does it necessarily conform to our expectations. What each of us thinks of as logical is a reflection of our own beliefs, and of our own moral compass.

Philip Houston

#7. Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Barack Obama

#8. Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Samuel Pisar

#10. I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie ... Someone else's life.

Michele Jaffe

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

Ilona Andrews

#12. Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Tina Brown

#13. There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Ted Koppel

#14. True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

Michael Fassbender

#16. A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.

Jason W. Blair

#17. 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

#18. I'd always fantasized about taking a woman, really taking a woman, and until Alex had destroyed me with a single lie, the fantasy had only been the depraved thoughts of a man who still had his moral compass intact.

Pepper Winters

#19. Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

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

Carol Alt

#21. It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

John Morgridge

#22. The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.

David Harsanyi

#23. When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Henry Rollins

#24. He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies.

Kresley Cole

#25. Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life.

Toba Beta

#26. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.

Lisa Kleypas

#27. If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Steve Chabot

#28. Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

Sarah Addison Allen

#29. 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

#30. My moral compass has been gradually tilting off-course, and I've been letting it happen.

Anna Zaires

#31. Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Yara Shahidi

#32. My moral compass doesn't point north. It points to safety.

Jamie Farrell

#33. 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

#34. Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

Ben Carson

#35. 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

#36. I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Michael Bloomberg

#37. A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

Ian Anthony Dale

#38. The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

Barack Obama

#39. I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

Andy Serkis

#40. All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

Barack Obama

#41. We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect for
God
People
Self?

Pam Farrel

#42. 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

#43. The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

Louis Freeh

#44. The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Sundar Pichai

#45. Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Tamara Keith

#46. My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Michael Biehn

#47. 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.

Kiera Cass

#48. Sure, it will be hard, but all you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.

Anna Kendrick

#49. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#50. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

#51. One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

Steven D. Levitt

#52. People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#53. Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.

Kevin Smith

#54. 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

#55. We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

Craig Newmark

#56. I want to know what the hell made you think this was your job to do? Who made YOU the moral compass of us? How could you lay down with the people you've laid down with?? Tell me, 'Director Stark', was it worth it??

Was it WORTH it?!

TELL ME!

Brian Michael Bendis

#57. Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#58. 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

#59. The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

Lupe Fiasco

#60. It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

Glenn Beck

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

John Perry Barlow

#62. A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Colin Powell

#63. The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.

Kofi Annan

#64. I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me ... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

Tim O'Brien

#65. For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Bruce Lipton

#66. As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Sam Brownback

#67. selling yourself erodes your moral compass.

Ransom Riggs

#68. While boys are taught that the things that make them men
good men
are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs. Literally.

Jessica Valenti

#69. I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Taryn Manning

#70. 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

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

Andrew Fastow

#72. If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Pope Shenouda III

#73. My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

Jack Wagner

#74. My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

Alyson Stoner

#75. Rationality plays a crucial role in decision making, but without the moral compass of emotions and the steady guide of empathy we would just be cold psychopaths.

Nikolaos Dimitriadis

#76. In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Henry Rollins

#77. Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Jim Lee

#78. Since when did the community become our moral compass - our viability and ethics as writers determined so much by our team spirit? ... What if all this communing actually hurts the primary means by which I set out to participate and communicate - my writing itself?

Meghan Tifft

#79. Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

Tabatha Coffey

#80. The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

Gary Wolf

#81. 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

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

Keith Murray

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

Marian Wright Edelman

#86. My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

Ben Quayle

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

Dan Ariely

#88. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Criss Jami

#89. A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.

Helene Wecker

#90. Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#91. You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

Toba Beta

#92. Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#93. Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen