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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. — Jean Genet

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right. — John Cusack

We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. — Dana Gould

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority — Richard Stallman

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable. — Dennis Prager

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. — Stephen Covey

No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A.J. Ayer

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world ... — Chuck Todd

Once you've discounted your own moral authority, once you've undermined your own country's moral self-confidence, you cannot lead. — Anonymous

It (Lewinskygate) has ... compromised his moral authority — Joe Lieberman

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. — Nadine Gordimer

What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority — Audre Lorde

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority. — Lakhdar Brahimi

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. — Confucius

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect. — Bryant McGill

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. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid. — Tom Green

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? — Ted Dekker

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority. — Phil Angelides

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority. — Bryant McGill

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. — A.J. Ayer

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

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. — Jodi Picoult

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. — Keith O'Brien

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

There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will. — Steve Hagen

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson