moral compass

That gradual pace of evolution has ensured that regulations and industry knowledge helped practitioners build a highly developed moral compass.

The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.

Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence.

That had to give them an enormous reservoir of moral strength and solace.

But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives.

For far too long, we have been coasting on a moral authority to which we long ago lost any clear title.

Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.

And so these features take on a kind of moral rightness before they are judged of as pleasing to the eye and as beautiful.

Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.

The naïve conception of sky and earth, and lastly the moral issue of the story, are no less instructive.