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  • Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

    Boys   Catholic   Church  
    FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 10, 2012
  • No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

  • The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

    Thinking   Past   Eight  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  • Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

    Law   Choices   Leader  
  • what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

    Voice   Suffering   Moral  
    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press
  • 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.

    Art   Truth   Secret  
  • Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

    Men   Trying   Moral  
    Alexis De Tocqueville (2010). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.45, Anchor
  • Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

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

    "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.
  • I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

    Boys   Thinking   Moral  
    "Being John Cusack", www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.
  • I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.

    Mean   Bridges   Inspire  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.

    Done   Exorcism   Moral  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Exorcist Reverend Bob Larson Talks The Devil Inside". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 04, 2012.
  • The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

    Art   Past   Egypt  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

    Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media
  • So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

    Hate   Believe   Names  
    Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
  • Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

    Bars   Moral   Strategy  
  • No moral system can rest solely on authority.

    Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction
  • 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's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.
  • If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.

    Art   Past   Civilization  
  • Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  • We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

  • Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything.

    Space   Waiting   Forever  
  • The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

    Stress   Taken   Light  
  • With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

    Latin   War   Men  
    Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.
  • Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

    President   Way   Moral  
    "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.
  • Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

    Law   People   Moral  
    "Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works". Lecture by Richard Stallman in Goeteborg, Sweden, May 16, 2007.
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