Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to trea...

David G. McAfee

Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or not, in a complex dynamic of each...

Gregory B. Sadler

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclys...

David Brooks

In the world of , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of...

Wendy Wasserstein

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

Rise of the Morningstar

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Mahmoud Abbas

Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!

Rachel Rueben

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Francesco Guicciardini

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Vita Sackville-West

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

Yugoslavian

If you wish to know what a man is, put him in authority.

Yugoslavian

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Henry David Thoreau

Hope is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My morals are important to me.

Hunter Parrish

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Isabel Allende

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.

C.S. Lewis