Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understood what Wade Boggs said Monday, you must know something the rest of us don't. Boggs said that he broke the "moral law," while Margo broke the "regular law." Okay...
PUTNAM'S appointment should change all that. Colleagues from the Government Department praise Putnam's commitment to moral integrity. "His most outstanding characteristic is his intense interest in doing what is right and what is fair," said Littauer Professor of Political Economy Thomas C. Schelling...
...Well, of course, but not as intensively as today. The feeling sharpened , over the course of time, as I started to learn more, as I came across wide polarities in living standards. So I am a fervent advocate of social justice. It is essential for the very moral and psychological climate of society. No special means are required, but sacrifices on the part of certain kinds of people are essential. We have to sacrifice ourselves. I don't consider this a slogan. Public interests are higher than personal interests. In a month I may be elected to the Congress...
...hidden ways. I would put forward one proposal, and he would advance the opposite point of view. In regard to social justice, he considers there are no problems in this area, but I think there are problems that keep the moral fabric of society in a state of tension. Remove this tension, and the sprouts of perestroika will start growing...
...questions multiply as the science progresses. Thomas Murray, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University, acknowledges that some people are worried that a complete map of the genome might somehow "diminish our moral dignity . . . reduce us somehow to nothing more than the chemical constituents of our bodies." But knowing the entire sequence of DNA base pairs is like having the full musical notation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, he says. "In no way does that knowledge diminish the grandeur of the symphony itself...