Sentence examples for moral left from inspiring English sources

Though they begin by taking as read their political differences – Lévy a man of the "moral left", Houellebecq an amoral kind of libertarian – they find that their shared vocation, their commitment to writers and writing, the self-sacrifice that has resulted, is a far more powerful ideological force.

It cannot be repeated often enough that when the moral left and right have been strong, when groups like SOS Racisme set boundaries that are bright and clear, the FN has been contained electorally.

It was time for a "fresh moral vision" beyond left and right, in the name of what was described as "the common good".

"At the time I made this rationalisation, saying: 'Well, high-frequency trading is providing the lubricant which allows the wheels of capitalism to turn.'" This is the standard justification of HFT, which the Flash Crash finally demolished for Lauer, who followed his moral compass and left.

"The moral confusion on the left," he says, "is staggering".

The paradox is rich, since conservatives regularly denounce the left's moral permissiveness.

The shift from a public presumption of the left's moral superiority has already occurred in education, health and social security.

Last night in his speech to launch a new campaign group, the Good Right, Michael Gove launched another audacious raid on the moral language of the left, saying that the "undeserving rich" ought to pay more in tax.

The Pope's detractors — from the right, where he is derided as a moral relativist, and the left, where he is seen as an instinctive defender of patriarchy — were thus put on notice right at the start.

Live Aid saw an emerging moral certainty from the left, born of the activism of the 1970s and early 1980s and bravely struggling out from under the dead weight of Nigel Lawson and Thatcherism.

Namely, that in accusing the Left of "moral illiteracy" the National Review's editorial board betrays that it is grossly illiterate when it comes to understanding not only what the meaning of the phrase check your privilege is, but the very concept of privilege itself.