Sentence examples for moral mistakes from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately for Kerry, moral mistakes, unlike political ones, don't generally lose elections.

Well, maybe secular confessionalism is subtly dishonest, in its habit of locating moral mistakes in the past and claiming to have learned from them.

Their outsider critiques of the structural inequities of the American political economy and of the moral mistakes of Cold War "anti-Communism," such as McCarthyism and support for "anti-Communist" dictatorships, had an influence far beyond their numbers.

"But this case has been valuable in pointing out what happened in El Salvador, in pointing out the moral mistakes of U.S. policy during the 1980's, when we gave aid to a murder machine because it was anti-Communist".

But it is very implausible that the remedy for moral mistakes is better introspection.

Since there is nothing to prevent judges and other legal actors from making moral mistakes, there is nothing to prevent a result whereby an entire legal community, and for a long time, gets its laws wrong (Marmor 2011, chapter 4).

By ruthlessly distorting Kerry's, the Bush camp certainly made a moral mistake.

[Presidentitial candidate Gov. George W.] Bush's failure to denounce that policy on the spot was a moral mistake.

He felt that it had been a strategic and moral mistake for the marriage-equality movement to count on ballot initiatives.

This is not just a breach of the solemn and absolute prohibition of torture to which the US has committed itself in international treaties: it is a terrible political and moral mistake.

Gerald Kellman, a Chicago community organizer, who was Obama's mentor when Obama worked on the far South Side in the nineteen-eighties, has been active in the same neighborhoods as Pfleger for thirty years, and he considers his embrace of Farrakhan to be a "moral mistake," a reflection of "a tremendous lack of sophistication".