Sentences with phrase «for civilized society»

Holmes wrote that «taxes are what we pay for civilized society» and that «great cases like hard cases make bad law.»

Of the many issues yet to be adequately investigated in this area is the principal question concerning the metaphysical foundation, and thereby justification, for civilized society according to Whitehead's organic cosmology.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

With no concept of how civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk of change that they have.

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).

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

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

In the generic sense, for Whitehead, the customs of any given civilized society function as the requisite «patterns of relationship,» which not only define but also substantiate the particular order of that society.

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The state knows something of mercy; for no civilized penal code is without its gesture toward the possible restoration of the wrongdoer to society.

We are in fact the present recipients of centuries of concern for justice in the laws that govern a civilized society.

While the quality of endurance does pertain to the society as a whole and not to its constituents per se, nonetheless the reality of that endurance is vested in the many who are solely responsible for bringing about the continuity of social order which ensures the endurance of civilized society.

But even as derivative types of existents, a civilized society and a Society per se are nonetheless both real in this secondary or dependent sense, and thus metaphysically speaking, they both must belong to some «category of existence other than that reserved for a primary exsociety and a Society per se are nonetheless both real in this secondary or dependent sense, and thus metaphysically speaking, they both must belong to some «category of existence other than that reserved for a primary exSociety per se are nonetheless both real in this secondary or dependent sense, and thus metaphysically speaking, they both must belong to some «category of existence other than that reserved for a primary existent.

Trying to deny that now smacks of arrogant children, dismissing and disrespecting the very belief system that is responsible for our prosperous and civilized society.

For after the shock of discovering just how completely the entire civilized world had averted its gaze from what was happening to their fellow Jews in Europe, they would find not only that they were now being welcomed to hitherto restricted precincts but that all the traditional expressions of hostility to Jews had been banished from polite, and even largely from impolite, society.

Showing some respect and empathy for all is not really that bad an idea unless your totally self serving and selfish and don't believe in a civilized society.

in a civilized society, there really is no use for such roles.

It is a necessary response if civilized society is to remain civilized, for, as Whitehead suggests, freedom to tolerate novelty «haunts the higher civilizations» (AI 280).

In the view of the Barnesville (Georgia) Herald - Gazette, for example, those who have been condemned to die are «human waste,» and thus «executing them should come as easily to a civilized society as flushing the toilet.»

That is the only people we can not have because they threaten to destroy the very fabric of what we are attempting to create, a more civilized society for all.

His point is that we are moving from a civilized to a post-civilized society, and that since civilized society is so disagreeable for so many, no tears should be lost as a result.

I call people who seek revenge, other than what is allowed under a civilized society's laws (as in, laws not based on religious «laws» that might allow an eye - for - an - eye mentality), for having their property destroyed stupid and primitive.

Condor accounted for only a tiny percentage of the atrocities committed in dictatorial Latin America, but it represented «the final, worst departure from the rules of law and civilized society.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

There are still «primitive» tribes who find it morally OK to kill someone for reasons that «civilized» societies might deem «bad.»

The first three are just chemical reactions in the brain and morality is something created by a civilized society that everyone must follow for the society to sustain itself.

That said, in any home, like in any civilized society, boundaries are necessary for everyone's safety and comfort.

~ In any home, like in any civilized society, boundaries are necessary for everyone's safety and comfort.

Buster Brown, thanks for a great comment, I too think that when a homicidal terrorist type is put to death and is no longer a threat, their burial is a good time to show the society they committed their reprehensible acts in is and against, is indeed is civilized and capable of respecting the dead; all the dead no matter how odious their acts in life might have been.

The Democrats believe that laws should be created in order to help those who can not help themselves that as we live in a civilized society, that there are those that need protection because they are unable to «fend» for themselves.

Focusing on the title girl's desperate, almost feral search for a job, Rosetta revealed how the desire for employment becomes a fight to find a place in the civilized world through claustrophobic, hand - held long takes that literally bore down on the anxious rituals and movements defining Rosetta's losing battle with a society that has no use for anyone on the margins.

Everything from grand, sweeping shots of undeveloped forest to gorgeous lens flares in fields of rich yellow hues, to the visual irony of seeing the boys pop out of the thicket and right back into civilized society, adjacent a restaurant where they'd be foraging for roasted chicken.

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.»

Hence, it is an embattled form of faith; fundamentalists believe that they are fighting for their own survival, the survival of the religion, and the survival of civilized society.

The modern - day Frankfurt Book Fair was a postwar phenomenon, a vehicle for easing the readmission of Germany into the company of civilized Western societies.

We Have A Moral Obligation & A Moral Duty To Care & To Protect What We As A Civilized & Cultured Society To Be With Compassion» It Is Unacceptable To Cause Pain & Suffering for Profit & Greed!

We crawl around in the bushes looking for kittens and cats that are ill, and do our work under some of the most challenging circumstances ever devised by a civilized society.

Defending the Defenseless: A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Pet is for anyone who wants to join a growing crusade to bring animal protection to its rightful place in a civilized society.

We don't have any special aptitude for survival, just cushy lives in a civilized society where, statistically speaking, no one will every try to do us serious harm.

The lack of response to these dramas of our brothers and sisters is a sign of loss of that sense of responsibility for our likes which underpins any civilized society.