Sentences with phrase «debased human»

I haven't seen this film, and so can not comment on it - but to all who lump atheists with communists, nazis, hedonists, and every other debased human quality, you are wrong.

To be sure, the possibility may not be realized; individuals may compromise the achievement they might otherwise contribute or debase the human order of which they are the beneficiaries.

Not exact matches

All humanity is debased when injustice is practiced on any fellow human being.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

Absolutely, it's hard not to name call and debase, you've just experienced yourself, we're only human and emotion trumps reason if we're not aware of it.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

Paul went on to remind the Galatians that the gospel is not of human origin, and that its message should not be distorted or debased by the imposition of controversial human opinions.

One must not jump to the conclusion that Hawthorne thought human nature as utterly debased as Emerson thought it sublime.

«The American democratic experiment will be debased and coarsened if it continues to deny the principle of the inviolability of innocent human life.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

«Terrorism has been described as the «weapon of the weak» - to counter it we must have the moral strength not to debase our values human rights, freedoms, rule of law.

Really, there's no need, when every night on prime - time television we can find experiments involving similarly «extreme social situations» being carried out on real human beings — subjects willing to submit to the most debasing forms of public humiliation Hollywood executives can dream up.

When you critique a movie you are obviously doing so as a sensitive, thoughtful human being on behalf and in defence of greater human virtues — and you love a good, dirty joke if no - one is being debased or humiliated.

For they said it would be debasing to the human profession to be on a par with the animal nursing profession.

After my single, not - so - great generation finishes the «missions» (ie, fools» errands) the leading, self - proclaimed «masters of the universe» among us have set before the human community, what resources will be left for our children to consume; how many more billions of people will have to share what remains of Earth's depleted and debased resources; where will they find clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, adequate soil for planting?