Sentences with phrase «as benevolence»

«A benevolent dictatorship can be O.K. for as long as the benevolence lasts,» said Hardy Green, author of a book on company towns.

«It may be the best option for many, just as a benevolent dictatorship can be O.K. for as long as the benevolence lasts,» Mr. Green said.

Beneath these responses, however, lurks an understanding that this gesture disguises violence as benevolence and suggests a symmetry between the power that humans wield over other life forms and the power they wield over one another.

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

Yet the moral ideals that Christendom had bequeathed to the late eighteenth and nineteenth century — ideals such as benevolence, civility, and justice — all retained a deep existential relevance.

And this is so even if God's power is seen as benevolence rather than domination.

Not exact matches

John's prescience, leadership and benevolence serve as a living acknowledgement and embodiment of Thomas Edison's values and principles,» Bonafilia added.

Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence, Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to share In some impossible benevolence, To care and not to care my muted prayer; Despite the years of practiced lassitude, And fearful of the all - consuming dare, Adrift, unmoored, bereft of gratitude, Consumed, perplexed, and wondering how I'll fare — When of a sudden you greet me as a guest Within the great Unknowing Cloud, the why Forgotten.

Gardner's definition of traditional art describes perfectly Hassler's novels: creations as admirable for their benevolence as for their architecture.

Here benevolence is not distant goodwill, as in the royal metaphor, but intimate nurture.

761) or, as the anonymous Office of Christian Parents puts it, two who are made one by marriage «may joyfully give due benevolence one to the other; as two musicall instruments rightly fitted, doe make a most pleasant and sweet harmonie in a well tuned consort».7

Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative, sanctifying them in the process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.

I am aware this happens as I was involved with benevolence at a previous church.

In Israel care of the needy was not regarded as an act of voluntary benevolence.

Childress argued that war is fundamentally morally problematic, as the killing in war goes against the prima facie duty of benevolence, which rules out killing or inflicting harm on other persons: «[B] ecause it is prima facie wrong to injure or kill others, such acts demand justification.»

Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.

Stressing the endeavor for social justice as a complement to the task of evangelism, recognizing the inadequacy of benevolences to meet the challenge, and therefore seeking concrete, structural, political involvement based on a Biblically informed concept of «social justice,» editor Smedes argues that the church's action will «find its way on the ridge between harmless generalities and divisive particularities.

It is paradoxical that today's Western imperialism denies its loyalty to the West, posing instead as a globalized benevolence and universal dispenser of justice.

That is what the church and the nation need today as we blunder into a world in which the desire of Americans for wealth and power has been the source of so much benevolence, and yet so much anguish and death.

They, never thinking that they owed their blessings to His benevolence and regarding their own might as the cause of their felicity, refused to obey.

Addams didn't consider what she was offering as philanthropy or benevolence, and she maintained that there is mutual dependency between the social classes.

For instance, one may plan sympathetically for the welfare of others long after his death through such actions as making a will or buying life insurance, and he may enjoy these actions; but he does them not just for his own enjoyment but also for the future recipients of the blessings of his benevolence.11 However, Hartshorne maintains that such universally common altruistic actions can only be fully comprehended rationally by appeal to God as superhuman mind who ultimately unites all persons and entities in his infinite awareness and memory.

Hannah Arendt's banality of evil is forced to mind, but now banality just as thoughtlessly in the service of benevolence.

12 He wrote of «the impossible problem of reconciling infinite benevolence and justice with infinite power in the Creator of such a world as this,» 13 and concluded: «the notion of a providential government by an omnipotent Being for the good of his creatures must be entirely dismissed.»

Justifying God as a God of well - intentioned benevolence by placing boundaries around the triumphant omnipotence of God finally collapses under the weight of its own insufficiently conceived alternative.

~ Omni - benevolence is NOT an aspect of God as taken from scripture.

It's as if we supercharge our benevolence for one month of the year and it takes us the other 11 to recover (and plan) for the next.

As Bernard Williams observed, «If it is a mark of a man to have a conceptualized and fully conscious awareness of himself as one among others, aware that others have feelings like himself, this is a precondition not only of benevolence but (as Nietzsche pointed out) of cruelty as well.&raquAs Bernard Williams observed, «If it is a mark of a man to have a conceptualized and fully conscious awareness of himself as one among others, aware that others have feelings like himself, this is a precondition not only of benevolence but (as Nietzsche pointed out) of cruelty as well.&raquas one among others, aware that others have feelings like himself, this is a precondition not only of benevolence but (as Nietzsche pointed out) of cruelty as well.&raquas Nietzsche pointed out) of cruelty as well.&raquas well.»

The psychological strategy fully shares its optimistic assumptions about the inherent benevolence abiding in all people, the moral significance of the individual's expressive needs, the absolute moral priority of the unhindered and unencumbered individual over the exigencies of the group, as well as its antipathy toward social convention and traditional institutions.

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

My church has a benevolence program that spends over $ 100,000 a year feeding 800 families a month as well as helping pay mortgage payments, rent payments and a multitude of other needs.

Just a the many reform and benevolence societies of the British people provided a master plan for their American brethren, so their antislavery work stood as a challenge and a pattern.

With new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches, revivalism poured outward through home and foreign missions as well as a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform, not forgetting that the message was for all of life.

Under the Word of God, the church must also constitute itself as a fellowship of faith through preaching, teaching, celebration of the sacraments, spiritual discipline, and benevolence.

To him, his profession as a doctor was one which was» «permanently» devoted to practical benevolence.»

Darkness at Noonby Arthur Koestler as it's a great, albeit depressing, account of the inter-play between ideological benevolence and naked human power lust.

Spending over Ȼ80, 000 in tank donations to marginalized areas and groups, Polytank Ghana's benevolence has impacted institutions as the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Police, some Fire Service stations, Educational institutions, international NGOs, rural communities, among others.

Spending over cents 80,000 in tank donations to marginalized areas and groups, Polytank Ghana's benevolence has impacted institutions as the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Police, some Fire Service stations, Educational institutions, international NGOs, rural communities, among others.

It was a moment of joy as troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in 7 Division Area of Responsibility that benefited from the benevolence of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Yusufu Buratai's Special Promotion for soldiers who actively participated in «Operation Deep Punch II» were decorated...

As economist Adam Smith said: «It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - interest.

As consumers and jewelers we can't change governments or politics, but we can create commerce and benevolence to help those people.

Pukka is all about using business as a force for good, creating circles of benevolence so that people, plants and the planet can all benefit.

He acted not out of benevolence, as Schindler ultimately did, but because the Jews offered him more money than the Nazis would for turning them in.

His big city is like Metropolis for the jazz age, but invested with a benevolence that American filmmakers save for their small town portraits, and his storytelling is as unabashedly romantic as it is sophisticated.

Respect is typically the most sparsely gifted of all human qualities, doled out so infrequently that it makes altruism, charity and benevolence seem as common as the trinkets at...

But... the universe does have her moments of benevolence, as she proved when I was scrolling through a back log of emails the other day and came across Joanna Penn's (thecreativepenn.com) newsletter.

Instead, read this as a rally cry for retail investors to take control of their own financial future, instead of hoping that a bank will discover its inner benevolence and do something other than try to boost its bottom line.

Tidbits should not be given from the table as this can be easily misinterpreted by dogs as being a weakness on your part rather than benevolence.

Unfortunately, the petition failed in its object, because His Excellency the Governor told the petitioners that for certain considerations the Town of San Pedro has been ceded to Mrs. Exaltacion Andrade de M6ndez for her life, to live on the rents, but with conditions of treating the inhabitants with benevolence and after her death the Crown will recognize the Town as her property.»