The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor.
The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.
But the memory of the Holocaust has failed to be the moral compass of the world...
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But should we really be empowering children to make moral decisions about a world in which they have little experience?
An America where we have restored our moral leadership in the world.
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Now we're going to be the most moral people in the world.
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There simply must be some source of moral authority in the world.
At a minimum, this moral inconsistency renders it impossible for the Obama administration to credibly embrace the mantel of moral actor on the world stage.
We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors.
If the GOP is to stand for something more than lower taxes and smaller government, it must return to the moral vision of a world in which the United States helps others achieve the freedoms it holds so dear.
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It's about your jobs, your health care, whether you can afford to send your children to college, whether you'll be able to withstand the pressure of the rising interest rates on a home foreclosure that might come your way, and whether we're going to once again be proud of our country, and our leadership, and our moral authority in the world.
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It would also be good to have a church that offers some ethical and moral leadership to the wider world.
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Christianity influenced and shaped the moral foundation of the modern world even as it retrenched and conceded space to secular thought in the realm of politics.
Who in the world today has the moral standing and the practical ability to take meaningful action?
But seldom is the world either just or moral.
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Of course, intellectuals, whom I de fine as those who think ideas are more important than people, are notoriously bad at seeing the ordinary world and coming to moral decisions about it.
Or a group of students might be in charge of putting together a multimedia presentation about the moral dilemmas in literature as applied to World War II.
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But the allegiance to shareholder value has helped inflate 2 of the biggest bubbles in stock market history, forced corporate leaders to pad short-term income statements and "put chief executives in an unreal world where they lose their moral compass, " said Martin.
In 1956 Clinton Rossiter, a political scientist, wrote that Americans wanted their president to make the country rich, to take the lead on domestic policy, to respond to floods, tornadoes and rail strikes, to act as the nation's moral spokesman and to lead the free world.
Dada was a moral and ethical response to the slaughter of World War I.
Confronted with a changing world, Helms uses his own moral outlook to make policy.
The retired general also says the world is beginning to question the moral basis for the U.S. war on terror.
That said, the moral atmosphere of the country is a brave new world compared with the one I grew up in.
The downside of his appealing gentleness is a sort of moral passivity that makes him blindly accepting of the world and his place in it.
America may be happy to differ sharply from the world's other democracies on some moral and ethical issues, and this often irritates its closest friends.
The next pope should be, in short, a charismatic, missionary culture warrior, challenging the world's democracies to rebuild their moral foundations and offering Catholic social doctrine as one tool for that urgent task.
The UNESCO Art Collection was initiated with the construction of UNESCO building, and it brings together works of art from across the world as a symbol of intellectual and moral solidarity and as a means to deepen it.
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