Sentences with phrase «if civilized people»

If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we're forced to talk about books we haven't read?

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Don't you really mean below, cause if you are reading messages newest to oldest (like the rest of civilized society) you would not know what people are planning to say!

For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»

Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector, quoted King George VI's words to the British people in 1939: «We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called... to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.»

The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we can not now see any way in which it can be overcome.

I have read somewhere on the wall of a house and it says, «if undressing is the civilization then animals are the most civilized person in the face of earth»

at least in every single muslim country someone can practice their religion... and i know for a fact that theres dozens of churches in jordan and many other muslim countries, JUST not in saudi arabia, which you people feel obliged to keep poking at... if you don't respect their most holy spot, how do you call yourselves «civilized people», more like bullies..

Why do we form civilized societies if not to meet the needs of the people?

If you are a liberal, your map tells you that you should be impressed: people are practising their civil right to disagree in a civilized manner, because that is one of the basic freedoms the liberal map suggests all decent societies should protect.

Though not many people are going to take a $ 70,000 — let alone $ 90,000 - plus — vehicle for a romp in the mud, it's nice to know that, if you must diverge from the civilized road, the 2009 Land Rover Range Rover is equipped with one of the finest off - road systems ever designed.

«Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.

If the industry leaders involved were civilized people, they would be just as concerned as everyone else with public health and the state of the planetary climate and environment.

Even if we assume the Eastern Woodland culture was no more successful than the much less civilized (meaning much less agriculturized) hunter - gatherer cultures of today's South American rain forests, their 2.5 people per square mile population density times the 2.6 million square kilometer Eastern Woodland area results in a possible Eastern Woodland area population of 6.5 million people.

In his most recent book, «Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking,» philosopher Daniel Dennett explains that arguments can still be civilized discussions if people don't let their egos get in the way.

If the journey was more civilized than it is today we would have a better country with far less harried, haggard, short - tempered people.