Sentences with phrase «accident of birth»

What is needed is a message of unity that includes all citizens, in the true sense of the word, regardless of accident of birth.

How dare you think you're better than others, simply based on accident of birth?

These are people who are simply seeking refuge from cruelty and suffering they want to make a contribution and, but for accident of birth, it could be any of us.

Now, the response to both of these points could be to say that they are unfair, because they represent simple accidents of birth.

No allusions to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers theory — that anyone's achievements stem largely from accident of their birth and the community that surrounds them.

By a different accident of birth, my kids were born into traumatic situations, and now fight mightily to function with neurological wiring that tells them every minute of every day that they are unsafe and everything they know and love could at any minute be taken away from them.

«If you draw the conclusion that all the children in your state are the responsibility of the state's education system irrespective of the geographic accident of birth... then you don't want there to be widely variable standards» on a national level, he says.

Most importantly, a scholarship tax credit program will move New Hampshire from an educational system where access is primarily determined by a student's zip code and accident of birth toward a system tailored to meet the individual needs of every child.

But surely nobody would seriously suggest that any new democracy in the world had an institution majority - determined by patronage and still minority - determined by accident of birth (or rather an ancestor rewarded centuries ago for sleeping with the king of the day)?

We want what philosophers call «luck egalitarianism»; a society in which inequalities that are as a result of luck, of accident of birth, should be rectified, but not those that are due to individual choices.

I understand your point that Prince Harry should be punished in just the same way as any other officer, and that this is based upon a rejection of the injustice that would otherwise arise due to the simple accident of his birth.

Excellence may require a mountain of hard work, according to Gladwell, but it's not mostly an accident of birth.

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

Barney: I have never understood the idea that Christ is the only way — does this mean that infants born into non christian societies are doomed to hell because of the accident of their birth?

Even if religion can be seen as an accident of birth — an idea that can frequently be heard even in certain fairly religious quarters these days — it is not simply a superficial characteristic the way race or ethnicity is.

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

I wonder if you have considered that your religion may have been an accident of birth?

«John Hick, a noted British philosopher of religion, estimates that 95 percent of the people of the world owe their religious affiliation to their god to an accident of birth.

Most Christians get heaven on accident of birth, just as accident of birth condemns many if not most people.

Status should be determined by function rather than by accident of birth or fortune or by success in the struggle for prestige.

I will not let the accident of birth [which God allowed] dicates the rest of my life.

But one point can be made very succinctly: Class, more than any other system of ranking, frees individuals from the accident of birth.

Furthermore, angry rhetoric — especially directed these days against human beings who by the accidents of birth happen to be Americans, white and male — never solves any of the problems.

No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

We are all sons and daughters of some god or Mother Nature depending on your accident of birth.

Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into.

And many of those are «good people» who are going to hell when it's over, never having has the accident of birth that acquainted them with your Lord.

«John Hick, a noted British philosopher of religion, estimates that 95 percent of the people of the world owe their religious affiliation to an accident of birth.

(c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or

Family - of - origin, Religion - of - Origin, Politics - of - Origin, Sex - of - Origin, Country - of - Origin: We should be free to think if we owe any allegiance to accidents of birth.

You believe in the Bible from the accident of birth, and the Turks believe in the Koran from the same accident, and each calls the other infidel.

What I don't get about religious people is that the reason that they believe what they believe in is all an accident of birth and of human history.

People may still hold the same beliefs and values that were held by their predecessors in more uniform situations, but they will hold them in a different manner: what before was given through the accident of birth now becomes a matter of choice.

Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.

But having well - behaved kids is also in part an accident of birth.

It is important to differentiate between deliberate negligence and accident of birth.

Someone who earns a lot of money can generally be trusted to be competent to manage and invest it well, but we have no similar assurances that the recipient of the property will be particularly qualified to manage it in the case of «dumb money» received by lottery or accident of birth.

But there is an English nation, with or without political structures, and it consists of those who sprang from its soil and grew here, an accident of birth like every other nationality.

Whether it's Shankill Road or Bradford, many peoples» fate is arguably determined by the accident of birth.

True, the difference may have nothing to do with anything other than accidents of birth, or random variation in nature, but they will do different things.

With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.

The Lords used to contain mostly hereditary peers, people who inherited their seats by an accident of birth.

Your «station in life» was purely down to the accident of birth - whether you were Upstairs or Downstairs!