Sentence examples for moral dissent from inspiring English sources

You were able to change the debate for a couple of hours, you know, and remind people that what they were doing was evil and that there was a moral dissent that had to be registered.

More recently, the painting has been interpreted as the symbol of solitary protest, and a moral justification of dissent, even when such a protest is known to be futile, ignored by most.

At other times, artists use tradition to offer a moral viewpoint or register dissent, like the Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi's decorative paintings in the style of Persian miniatures.

As Justice Scalia warned in a caustic dissent, "If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is 'no legitimate state interest'... what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising 'the liberty protected by the Constitution'?

There is no moral hierarchy for expressing dissent; try punching someone in the gut and asking them not to scream.

More essential notions were conveniently ignored such as the precepts of social justice, political dissent, and the moral duty for intellectuals to criticise the ruler".

His Basij force is made up of mostly religious volunteers who act as an Islamic moral police and suppress political dissent.

Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.

Like any movement steeped in dissent and nonconformity, punk's moral force grows with government suppression.

These two extremes — the extent of complicity and the danger of dissent — make the exhibition's moral queries seem like relics of ordinary life, while the history is of a different order.

The release of the Pentagon Papers stirred nationwide and, indeed, international controversy because it occurred after several years of growing dissent over the legal and moral justification of intensifying U.S. actions in Vietnam.