Sentences with phrase «are civilized people»

There are civilized people in the world who won't reward others for being an asshat.

To be a civilized person is to conduct one's life in accord with such principles of excellence as consistency, balance, variety, and functional efficacy.

It's the civilized person's confusion.

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.

Not exact matches

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Religion is a poison to civilized society, and we need to stop kissing people's butts constantly when they insist on shoving it in our faces at inappropriate times like these guys did on this flight.

Lots of gay people remain decent, civilized human beings, despite their practicing homosexuality.

religion was created to A. keep the masses afraid and B. to create a ruling class when there wasn't a form of government to keep people civilized.

I say the civilized Western world and it's people should simply get out of your countries and let you kill each other off.

As Pete reports, the statesman Gates explains that Congress (where both parties are very well organized) really wasn't good enough for him or any decent and civilized person.

You mention «uncivilized people,» yet the concept of posting a war trophy for people to mock and ridicule, is less civilized that even al Qaeda.

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!

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

There are, however, civilized and uncivilized people, so I act in accordance with the civilized ones.

Religion and politics are two subjects that civilized people don't talk about unless they know the person well, and know how far to go.

The Babylonians were a highly civilized mercantile people.

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

It has often been violated, also in modern times — massively so under Nazism and Communism — but civilized people have adhered to it in principle.

As a non-believer myself, I am glad some of us can talk like civilized people.

You seem to want to involve in a devbate, but you can't be civilized, so it's no wonder people are ignoring you.

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.»

The majority of people in the civilized world are evolutionists for the same reason that the majority don't believe that the world is flat.

Given the right conditions for growth, people of any shade of skin, any religion, or any nationality can develop into capable, cultivated, and civilized human beings.

We civilized people have been spoiled.

In the late tenth century, we are told, the grand prince Vladimir from what is today the Ukraine was planning to introduce his people into the civilized world.

Companies, like individuals, are wise to take note of the local customs and not just have the arrogance of the imperialists who assume that every civilized person goes along with their dress codes and cultural standards.

But those p ∞ r babies complained that the American colonists wouldn't stand up in straight lines and fight fair, like civilized people.

As with all religions followed by all manner of people, their needs to be understanding brought about thru civilized conjectures found out to be as an educational sermon toward all and everyone's faith subjective rationalisms.

This not only goes for hate - speak, but for lying and slandering: our Supreme Court may say it's legal, but is it they way civilized people conduct themselves?

Muslims are modern and civilized people?

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

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.»

Lastly, the collective individuality, or solidarity, of a civilized society is realized as one community of many persons.

A civilized society is at least something greater than a simple mixture of homogenized persons.

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»

The efficacy of a civilized society, regardless of its apparent authority in the affairs of individuals, is in reality nothing but the cooperative agency of many persons functioning, either officially or informally, to carry on the daily exercise of accepted practice.

People who speak out of terms for no reason at all and disrespect others are not civilized at all.

And with situations like this it is public whether the families want it to be or not and most of the people who hear this kind of thing are saddened and mourn the loss of the victims as well — or at least civilized human beings do.

The sad thing is that so many countries (and religious and political groups) want that cartoon's header to be a representation of how many non - heterosexual / non - heteroromantic / non-cisgender people there are in their «civilized and superior» society.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

In civilized society and among civilized persons, this sadism may be somewhat tempered, yet in person - to - person relationships it can be dreadfully apparent.

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

Civilized people realize (even when they don't realize they realize) that male and female are not equal.

What really makes people show disrespectful and not used to civilized / scholarly discussion is when they go into news forums talking about the catholic faith, christianity, judaism etc. and start insulting with a very proud and selfish tone, and in obvious bad faith.

Hopefully some day we can learn to just look the other way (You know, turn the other cheek as Christ taught), or learn that saying other people's beliefs are stupid (atheist's you don't like it when people tell you you're wrong, but you feel you can tell others they're wrong) is detrimental to a civilized society.

The American commercial republic was conceived as an institutional design that would stir the self - interest of individuals to produce not brutal competition but civilized emulation, uplifting the people's material and moral standards of life.

People need to get over the garbage we are fed in the media and only then will we be able to sit down and talk like civilized people (and not as scared little finger - pointers who yell «terrorist» at everyone they disagree People need to get over the garbage we are fed in the media and only then will we be able to sit down and talk like civilized people (and not as scared little finger - pointers who yell «terrorist» at everyone they disagree people (and not as scared little finger - pointers who yell «terrorist» at everyone they disagree with).

However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).