Sentence examples for moral violence from inspiring English sources

The blogger Andrew Sullivan has noted that the catechism condemns "torture which uses physical or moral violence".

Moral violence, whether reflected in legal sanctions, the killing of enemy soldiers in war, or punishing someone for an ethical transgression, is motivated by the recognition that its victim is a moral agent, someone fully human.

But it's more than necessary when people have been confronted with such physical and moral violence".

As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King's life's work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence.

Addressing – yet again – the "Muslim world" last month, Barack Obama hailed "the moral force of non-violence", through which "the people of the region have achieved more change in six months than terrorists have accomplished in decades".

It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.” As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King’s life’s work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence.

It was no accident, then, that in his remarks, President Obama said, "It was the moral force of non-violence, not terrorism, not killing, that bent the arc of justice".

Moral force will prevail over violence in a world where conscience still abides.

Technology gives the unjust few a frightening physical power over the majority, and a random act of violence could add moral force to that physical power.

But in her latter decades she came to believe that civil disobedience, like that at Vieques, was not only more moral than violence but more effective.

His three full-length plays, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity.