Sentence examples for moral poverty from inspiring English sources
And of course, coming up to the 21st century, you see the material wealth in China versus the moral poverty.
Two years ago, another sub-spawn of the vast international job-creation scheme called the UN took it upon itself to lecture the British on the moral poverty of the way we bring up our children.
As Dreiser re-creates it, the crime grows out of a collision between the mental and spiritual poverty of the lower middle class and the moral poverty of the rich.
If it were true then the opposite would also be true: if defeat equals moral poverty, then by the same token victory must be evidence of purity, good grace and divine, moral standing.
"I long ago stopped trying to live as it were in harmony with other people, with Nature, or even with myself, and what is more, I would see that as nothing short of a form of moral poverty, the same sort of disgusting perversity as in an oedipal relationship or incest between two hideous siblings".
I will not enter the realm of what moral poverty looks like, but I often wonder if history will judge us with regard to homelessness the way we judge the casual participants in the slave trade: those who lived with it and did nothing to bring about its end.
At certain moments, it has been proposed as a panacea for sin, luxury, moral corruption, poverty, alcoholism, marital discord, war, and urban vice and depravity.
The Conservative party has not entirely lost its moral bearings on poverty: an MPs' group on hunger and food poverty last week established an inquiry to explore why so many people are dependent on food aid.
"America's need to address the great moral issue of poverty demands strong action," he said in a statement, "and a cabinet-level poverty position is exactly that kind of action".
Poverty is a moral concept; and our poverty line should reflect a judgment that it provides a morally acceptable standard of living.
"He really had a moral purpose — solving poverty for real people," Clare Lockhart said.
