Sentences with phrase «civilization built upon them»

There's much more to the story of human civilization built upon a unified code of moral and spiritual precepts than the names of ancestors long dead like Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad.

As they Unravel, the civilization built upon them will collapse.

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God's own suffering and his patient activity provide a model for the rebel upon which to build a just civilization.

The murder of Abel by Cain represents the fratricidal, murderous violence upon which all human civilization is built.

Much of our civilization is built upon a system of dominance - submission between the sexes.

Pace Johnson, civilization is not built upon physics but on metaphysics, and it is the abandonment of the latter which began the inexorable decline of civilization, until at last we reach the level of the primeval soup of Lennon's «nothing,» or at least nothing but physics.

In a great many, there were as many as six or seven that had been built upon the same site; and out of these great mounds there came a vast wealth of information disclosing the nature of the great civilization that had flourished there.

I am mostly not a conservative in the American or even European political sense, but I am conservative in the sense of seeking to preserve and build upon the achievements of Western civilization — including the development of its logical implications for future decades and centuries.

Even though the subtext here about the genocidal lies that great civilizations are invariably built upon threatens to deflate the film's soufflé texture, the Marvel Universe's unshakeable faith in the clear delineation between good and evil luckily prevents Ragnarok from ever truly buying what Hela's selling.

They are the rock upon which our civilization is built.

One of the major characters, inBOIL, decides to leave the commune and live in a forbidden area called «The Forgotten Works,» which is built upon the ruins of a former civilization.