Moral Authority Quotes

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.