Sentence examples for superior virtue from inspiring English sources

Political authority in China, then as now, is based on the notion of superior virtue.

Persons of superior virtue are not virtuous, and that is why they have virtue.

Democracy is the superior virtue we claim as we smugly survey the chaos that military dictators have visited upon Pakistan.

There is clearly a lot to this theory, but it goes wrong when it lazily assumes what the philosopher Bertrand Russell called "the superior virtue of the oppressed".

Just as autocratic Chinese governments have always justified their monopoly of power by claiming superior virtue, peasant rebellions and religious protests have done the same thing.

But in this quest for lost paradise and in the name of superior virtue and high moral feeling, how many doses of deadly mercury have been fervently administered?

Is it a claim that billionaires have superior virtues?

Throw in a deeply held belief in the superior virtues of the private sector – entertained by both this government and the preceding – and you create the peculiar situation in which former DfID employees are re-employed by their old department, on seriously increased pay, to "perform essentially the same work as they did before".

Murray urges the wealthy, whom Murray assumes to be virtuous, to preach to the poor their need to end their sinful nature, go to church, and emulate the superior virtues of the wealthy.

Writing in 1826, Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri said the authors of the Constitution had intended the electors to be men of "superior discernment, virtue and information".

Camillus sent them to Rome, where, being brought into the senate, they spoke to this purpose: that the Romans, preferring justice before victory, had taught them rather to embrace submission than liberty; they did not so much confess themselves to be inferior in strength, as they must acknowledge them to be superior in virtue.