Sentence examples for moral cleanliness from inspiring English sources
The industry of sexual confession, Foucault said, "set itself up as the supreme authority in matters of hygienic necessity … it claimed to ensure the physical vigour and the moral cleanliness of the social body; it promised to eliminate defective individuals, degenerate and bastardised populations".
Physical and moral cleanliness have always been closely associated, both in religious practices and in people's minds, as revealed by the words they use--such as "pure" applied either to body or spirit.
Investors get a veil of moral cleanliness.
Look, God didn't even always require this kind of moral cleanliness when choosing his representatives on earth.
This association of cleanliness with moral probity is further bound up with the now well-established link between moral disgust (eg, at unusual sexual practices) and physical disgust (eg, at handling dirty objects or eating polluted food).
Born in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1913, Rosa McCauley Parks was brought up by a schoolteacher mother who adhered to the belief of Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, that cleanliness and high moral character were "civilizing agents".
High moral qualities such as honesty, charity, gratefulness, forgiveness, cleanliness and love were taught by him.
Indeed, cleanliness and tidiness have been shown to promote legal and moral action, while a messy environment appears to do the opposite.
However, as the cleanliness and purification rituals found in many religions suggest, physical cleanliness, too, is linked to moral behaviour, so she decided to investigate this as well.To do so, she conducted two experiments.
