Sentence examples for achieve moral from inspiring English sources

History rather than charity should supply the guiding principles, said Mr. Rosenbaum, the author of a forthcoming book, "The Morality of Justice," which argues that the legal system often fails to achieve moral results.

People looked to religion for help in mastering the forces of nature rather than to achieve moral improvement.

Mosley agrees: when you have been mired in corruption, he seems to say, the only way to achieve moral uplift is to sink to the bottom.

Condliffe (1944) says that power, including the possible use of force, is not necessarily evil but may be used to achieve moral purposes.

Their higher cultural capital enables them to legitimate their pursuit of pleasure and comfort and their higher economic capital helps to keep their finances in balance, which the middle class uses to achieve moral justification.

We achieve moral progress and maturity to the extent that we adopt habits of reflectively revising our value judgments in response to the widest consequences for everyone of living them out.

As we move into the religious wars, I wish we could recall how Abe Lincoln achieved moral clarity without moral sanctimony.

In each of these examples, the harm principle is insufficient as a basis for achieving moral consensus.

Blaming Islamic theology, or fixating on the repellent rhetoric of Isis, may be indispensable in achieving moral self-entrancement, and toughening up convictions of superiority: we, liberal, democratic and rational, are not at all like these savages.

Rousseau makes a further claim in the same chapter of The Social Contract, namely that in conditions of civil society the citizen achieves "moral freedom," by which he means obedience to a law that one has prescribed to oneself.

Medicine is a moral discipline but the indirect method of achieving moral acculturation would no longer be sufficient to equip the physician to meet the ethical challenges of modern day biomedical practice.