Sentences with phrase «community standards of decency»

It is clear that community standards of decency have slipped in our country.

But other times poverty produces a bitterness and oppression, and the victim of poverty, unable to find a constructive outlet for his hostilities, seizes for himself the right to judge, and violates all the community standards of decency.

Not exact matches

The standards of decency and honor and human compassion which were valid and prized among individuals in the little communities of Palestine did not cease their high demands when one stepped over the boundary into Syria or Philistia; but there alike men were human, with human needs and, consequently, with human standards.

He noted that King described a «beloved community» in which the wealth of the world is shared by all of the people of the world and in which poverty, hunger and homelessness are eliminated «because of an international standard of decency.»