Sentences with phrase «as civilized people»

As long as we wish to remain as civilized people, and make huge progress, we must support our institution at all times not only when it is convenient like Bukola Saraki or some of his acolyte might wish us to believe.

I think wilderness is, to some extent, a state of mind, and to some extent a necessarily paradoxical state of mind, because it's about a place that exists by your denial of it; the more you as a civilized person are in it, the less wild it is, because you are there.

Not exact matches

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.

As long as Muslims butcher people over what happens to a book they will never find acceptance in civilized societAs long as Muslims butcher people over what happens to a book they will never find acceptance in civilized societas Muslims butcher people over what happens to a book they will never find acceptance in civilized society.

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.»

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.

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

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.»

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 rationalismAs 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 rationalismas an educational sermon toward all and everyone's faith subjective rationalisms.

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.

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

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.

Equally so, a civilized society, as one whole and regardless of its particular political orientation, exerts its influence solely in terms of the individual effort of persons, acting either alone or in concert with one another.

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.

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).

I call people who seek revenge, other than what is allowed under a civilized society's laws (as in, laws not based on religious «laws» that might allow an eye - for - an - eye mentality), for having their property destroyed stupid and primitive.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

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.

We just can't sit here as decent, civilized people and pretend that there's anything redeemable about a predominately orange uniform.

alright - on the one hand, we have a group of good but insecure people who want to show that humankind has dominion over the earth and must therefore not do or show anything that relates us with animals - no skin, no cleavage, no suckling children, must stay clean and prim and proper (don't talk about bodily functions, either) so as to show how civilized and advanced we really are compared to the wild.

For fans of noisy communication: loud laughter and talk, as well as examine closely the people — not a civilized manner.

The incident was depicted in the media as people coming down from the mountains, refusing to be civilized (there is a headline «slum dwellers came down to the city,» for instance [11]-RRB- and butchering tulips (Akçay 2005).

«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.

People who are seeking for escaping away from the civilized life and want to spend a refreshing vacation in an ecolodge as well as want to enjoy beach activities, they will find this resort a little piece of paradise.

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.

Common Article 3 does not list specific guarantees for criminal defendants in NIACs; it simply requires that defendants be afforded «all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized people.»

While U.S. Steel is correct to say that a person can not be imprisoned for a civil debt for, as Justice Binnie held in R. v. Wu, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 530 (S.C.C.) at paragraph 2, «[d] ebtors» prison for impoverished people is a Dickensian concept that in civilized countries has largely been abolished», the Act does not provide for the possibility of U.S. Steel or any of its executives being sent to debtors» prison for the failure to pay a penalty imposed upon it.