Moral Compass Quotes

“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

“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, The Golem and the Jinni

“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. This is what the television news is all about. Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Life would be so much simpler if she would fall for the male whose moral compass was as dependable as the North Star.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“You don’t need a compass when you are yourself a map.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it turns an ordinary biological creature into a unique moral being of conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“What you have is momentary; who you are is forever.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“I am the person
beyond the paradigm,
I am but a reflection
of the best of humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice.”
― Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

“The next time any of you are called upon to address a body of men tell them to learn for themselves and to teach their sons, and to hold them at the critical hour, even by sweat and blood, to a clean life; for in this way only can feeble-minded homes, almshouses, and the scarlet woman be abolished. In this way only can men arise to full physical and mental force, and become the fathers of a race to whom the struggle for clean manhood will not be the battle it is with us.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, The Harvester

“Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way. Whether that makes her wicked, I'll leave to philosopher's.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“If you lose your values chasing wealth, you’ll eventually lose both.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank