Sentences with phrase «for being the civilized»

Make no mistake, this is central to the attack on the price we pay for being the civilized society we like to believe we are.»

In the belly of Western culture is the feeling that we're not worthy... All this internalized self - loathing is the cost we pay for being civilized.»

Not exact matches

Say you're the flip - flop wearing nerd with a comic - con T - shirt and a haircut that says «past - due,» and you really have no business addressing more civilized audiences, except that you're a genius and you have something to offer that would change lives for the better.

Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs charged that in pulling U.S. support for the Paris accord, Trump was not only forfeiting global leadership, but leading America right out of the civilized world.

«Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society» (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

This CNN forum, and the vitriol it has induced, is a good example of precicesly why a civilized society keeps religion out of the public forum... (and for the record, the high stress atmosphere of an airplane is clearly a particularly bad forum to inject religion).

I also know taxes are necessary for civilized society, but that doesn't make prying a third of my income from my stingy mitts any more joyous.

This ongoing discrimination & «apartheid» wrought by Muslims extremists on Christians — has gone on for too many years & is unacceptable in a modern and civilized world.

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.

There is some lovely, poetic material in the Quran, and a few areas of guidance for civilized behavior; but the claims of a supernatural basis for it are in no way substantiated (as is the case also with the Bible).

Eye for an eye was a «civilized» control of the society at that time.

You mention «uncivilized people,» yet the concept of posting a war trophy for people to mock and ridicule, is less civilized that even al Qaeda.

Anyone who follows biblical morals is unfit for a civilized society.

«Worship» is a primitive paradigm that may work for nomadic goat herders but is repugnant and a perversion in civilized society whether it be hollywood worship, sports team worship, political party worship or deity worship.

Even though we modern, civilized Christians typically do not kill and murder those with whom we disagree, there is an area of our lives today where we still put others to death for the sake of our religion.

AFFIRM HEREBY that such cooperation must be based on a «Common Word,» requiring that such cooperation must go beyond mutual tolerance and respect, to providing full protection for the rights and liberties to all religious groups in a civilized manner that eschews coercion, bias, and arrogance.

Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»

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.

Morally, man is evil, and becoming more so as he grows more civilized: what grounds have we for hoping that he will improve?

I am saying, for one thing, that violence is the general rule for the existence of societies — including the societies that call themselves civilized but have only camouflaged violence by explaining and justifying it and putting a good face on it.

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

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.»

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

He appointed himself to know what is best for Africans just because he was white, «civilized» and Christian.

The majority of people in the civilized world are evolutionists for the same reason that the majority don't believe that the world is flat.

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

Given the right conditions for growth, people of any shade of skin, any religion, or any nationality can develop into capable, cultivated, and civilized human beings.

Beheading someone for no reason other than to make a political point is evil in any civilized society.

This is a blog for civilized discourse, not immature garbage.

And yet, in the spaces between words, some among us have managed to convince ourselves that not only is it possible to be civilized and legislate for killing innocents, but one may have abortion and Christ as well.

It then produces the dislocations and confusions marking the advent of new ideals for civilized effort» (AI 279).

This distinction is foundational for any civilized legal system and is also a matter of natural justice.

There can be little doubt that in civilized societies at the present time the stress is put on living as well as one can in the present moment or for a fairly short future.

How we come to view Charlie Gard's case has direct import for how we will view the direct killing of infants, an ancient and barbaric practice that has been reintroduced in the Netherlands in deceptively civilized guise as the «Groningen protocol.»

Civilized values are derived from the necessity of cooperation between individuals in order for cultures to survive.

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?

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.

For this purpose I shall focus attention on civilized existence, simply acknowledging that the process described was already far advanced before the advent of civilization.

Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming a developed, civilized nation, super power that is a breeding ground for haters and paranoid nut cases such as the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (the Norwegian terrorist) in this ever shrinking, increasingly global world.

Forms — let's call them for the moment manners, little rules of protocol, the observance of ceremonies — are the heart and soul of civilized life.

The same could be said for personal existence and, indeed, for axial existence in general, or of civilized existence, or, before that, of human existence as such.

On all too many occasions, hanging would truly be «too good for him,» but that familiar phrase reminds us how far civilized law restrains itself from meting out thoroughgoing retribution, presumably for reasons that must supersede society's legitimate concern for reciprocity, proportionality and just deserts.

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

We ought to think twice before we encourage a risk like that; for, once civilized, China can never be uncivilized again.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

Miller is trying to make the point that organized religion is morality for a civilized culture.

Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector, quoted King George VI's words to the British people in 1939: «We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called... to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.»

Dutt explains that this reference to monkeys is only the result of «that contempt for aboriginal races which has marked civilized conquerors in all ages.»