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• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.

  Mario Bunge

  Democracy, Groups, Legal System

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• 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.

  Frederick Hart

  Art, Past, Civilization

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• A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Law, Land, Doe

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1979). “If I am assassinated ...”, Advent Books Division Inc

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• 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.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Trying, Moral

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2010). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.45, Anchor

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• It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

  Tom Green

  Beer, College, Groups

  Source: www.axs.com

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

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Moral, Authority

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• 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.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Moral, Authority, Unesco

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• 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.

  John Cusack

  Boys, Thinking, Moral

  "Being John Cusack", www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

  Joe Lieberman

  Stupid, Humorous, Moral

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• We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

  Billy Corgan

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s "Mellon Collie" Cover Story, "Zero Worship". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• 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

  Winning, Years, America

  "Paul Ryan Is Faking It Until He Makes It" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Bob Larson

  Done, Exorcism, Moral

  "EXCLUSIVE: Exorcist Reverend Bob Larson Talks The Devil Inside". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 04, 2012.

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• We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Iraq, Needs

  "Shades Of The Sixties" by Brian Dakss, www.cbsnews.com. October 26, 2002.

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• No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Issues, Spheres, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.

  Lawrence Korb

  Military, White, House

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• A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

  Simon Blackburn

  Leaving, World, Moral

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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

  Audre Lorde

  Voice, Suffering, Moral

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

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• We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

  Chuck Todd

  World, Moral, Authority

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

  David Cameron

  Reset Button, Buttons, Three

  "Obama, Cameron stress trust" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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