Sentence examples for a higher morality from inspiring English sources

Liberation from colonial rule meant little to him if the liberated peoples did not embody a higher morality of justice and compassion.

Robert hired a lot of them as extras because many of them were skilled at surviving on the run and he liked the fact that they were outlaws, people who had courage to follow a higher morality, like Robert.

It became fashionable in the nineteen-sixties, as individuals and groups increasingly asserted the right to take the law into their own hands, insisting that their purposes represented a higher morality. . . .

The test of his greatness is the self-created freedom he has to commit murder, which he does, as an intellectual exercise, only to be enfeebled by guilty conscience and forced, once in prison, to submit to the forces of a higher morality, as Hills has done by embracing religion.

The former United States ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, argued that Snowden "thinks he's smarter and has a higher morality than the rest of us … that he can see clearer than other 299, 999, 999 of us, and therefore he can do what he wants.

Moreover, we are bound to encounter these kinds of things not because the actors in question lack a sense of morality but because of the particular kind of moral righteousness that claims of collective responsibility allow those who want to retaliate against their enemies in the name of a higher morality.

This indicates to Dr. Ditcher, a high morality coupled with self-restraint.

"The very act of rejecting them could be just as powerful as staying with them, because it would show that they have a high morality that people would admire and that could eventually make them more popular," he said.

If this higher morality or higher altruism were found in babies, the case for divine creation would get just a bit stronger.

Even Lisbeth Salander, in her furious revenge on male predators, remains within the boundaries of some kind of higher morality.

That is, the fact that our participants gave higher morality ratings to respect, loyalty, honesty and responsibility over more specific bioethical principles may simply reflect that some of the former values may already include some of the more specific principles.