Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Robert Reich

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

The Leadership of Muhammad

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would b...

God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society

True, the US Government does not have moral authority to ask for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that occurred in final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka. This is so not just because of what they ha...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

Paul Ryan

We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name ev...

Death Of Character: Moral Education In An Age Without Good Or Evil

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people cou...

Catherynne M. Valente

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. ...

Crisis Of Moral Authority

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Pat Barker

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Michael Shermer

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to ...

Obedience to Authority