Sentences with phrase «civilized persons»

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

Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of otherwise civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.

Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of otherwise - civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.

Let the simpletons continue to fade away while civilized people continue to progress.

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.

When it fell, civilized people rejoiced.

Civilized people since ancient times have always recognized this.

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.»

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.

By choosing to massively attack innocent people, the perpetrators of these acts have lost any right to have their point of view considered by civilized people.

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.

We civilized people have been spoiled.

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.

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.

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»

Kristol characteristically opined that «no civilized person in his right mind wants to govern Iraq.»

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.

at least in every single muslim country someone can practice their religion... and i know for a fact that theres dozens of churches in jordan and many other muslim countries, JUST not in saudi arabia, which you people feel obliged to keep poking at... if you don't respect their most holy spot, how do you call yourselves «civilized people», more like bullies..

It could become a place which gives substance to the cry of all civilized people, «Never again» [The Pilot, August 30, 1989].

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 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).

In this case, of the son, surely the sons of traitors are not automatic targets of civilized people.

On the one hand, Rabbit seems clearly condemned for giving full rein to the «urgent inner whispers» which civilized people must hold tightly in check.

Barbarians bully; civilized people persuade.

But despite the immense self - evidence of self - identity through time for all civilized peoples, we have seen that it is not an ontological necessity.

The empire which it governed was made up chiefly of city - states and embraced some of the oldest of civilized peoples.

Of the religions with major followings among civilized peoples, only Christianity appeared to be waning.

Even civilized peoples ask and answer questions about the meaning of human life, the reality of their existence, the nature of the world and the calamities they undergo.

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.

In a penetrating essay on the «put - down,» Joseph Epstein says that judging others is «malice formulated in tranquility» and the «civilized person's equivalent of the perfectly aimed knockout punch.»

I ate a whole one yes, BUT, you could just cut one in half and share it like a civilized person.

I'd like to think I was a more civilized person than to wish physical violence on anyone but hey, I'm not.

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

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

We were past the point of using fitting rooms like civilized people.

I am still confused ten months after the election, how a civilized people, capable of thought and comprehension, could get carried away by the numerous unrealistic promises in the face of realistic achievements in the four years that, John Dramani Mahama was the president.

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.

«Civilized people should avoid destructive actions and promotion of conflicts.

When these prisoners» terms are done, and they return to society, to put into practice all the lessons they have learned about how civilized people behave?

The vibrant health of these native peoples was a shocking departure from the health of the civilized people of his day.

A summary of this division of the data is recorded in Table III in which are also recorded, for comparative purposes, the average values found with the same technique amongst civilized peoples.

Every day we civilized people is trying to do something for the communities.

He begins here with his travels to Tierra del Fuego, where he and Robert FitzRoy discover «the dirtiest, most unclean, least civilized people you could ever imagine.»

«You'll see... when the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other,» he cackles.

It's the civilized person's confusion.