"The moral authority in the Western world is……" — James A. Baldwin

Related Quotes

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained… — Mahatma Gandhi
• The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and… — Nelson Mandela
• No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A.J. Ayer
• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. — Earl Warren
• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. — Ma Jian
• All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega
• Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey
• It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and… — Clarence Darrow
• The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some… — Walter Lippmann
• It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore… — Jonathan Swift