Sentences with phrase «future generations the one»

Citizens who care about justice for future generations should demand answers on Social Security reform from the presidential candidates.

Jesus teaches us to love and respect nature as God's providence for all humanity; globalization abuses and pollutes nature with grave harm to future generations.

But the turn had been made, the rudder seized with such zeal and urgency that the course correction was taken by many in future generations to be the «course.»

They would like to see us leave to future generations a world that has resources comparable to those with which it is now endowed.

It is by no means certain that the opportunities we have had will be available in future generations.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

We are the potential saints for future generations.

The authors also feared that the economic policies of industrialized nations were depleting natural resources, leaving future generations bereft of the economic goods that Western nations had already achieved.

Only after we have recognized the Christian hope in this form, are we in a position to ask the humanist or the Marxist if his work for the renewal of society and for the future generations of mankind actually exhausts the meaning of hope for the man of the new world.

An amusing anecdote for future generations.

Isn't it also true that we are here today, that we are who we are, in the condition in which we find ourselves, because we also had biological and spiritual ancestors who sat on their hands, who cared only for themselves, who thought little about the impact of their actions on future generations?

Limbaugh should be put behind glass and studied so that future generations can weed out his particular sort of stupidity.

And, finally, people are struggling for the protection of the environment and the right of future generations to inherit an inhabitable planet.

Why should * I * care about the sake of the species, future generations, or, in fact, other living people?

Second, feelings of «empathy» helping preserve society and future generations is irrelevant.

It doesn't work for future generations; it is not sustainable in the long run.»

Its heritage is something of enduring value designed to benefit all future generations.

The earth does not belong to any one generation; we are merely its stewards and our mission should be to preserve it for future generations.

I often wonder if future generations will look back in bemusement at how ours probed the sub-atomic world, sent probes outside the galaxy, tamed nature and cured so many diseases, but still believe in Bronze Age Palestinian mythology

The earth was made «to endure» and was given for all future generations.

But to expect that the global ethic can tell us something important about our responsibilities to far - off future generations when deep disagreements keep it from being specific on our responsibilities to prenatal life strikes me as moral leapfrog.

The Big O already told you he doesn't care about future generations when he said he'd kill his own grandkids.

You forget, the good that we do is passed on to future Generations.

Second, in his discussion of economics as it intersects with ecology, Küng has an interesting section on responsibility toward future generations.

We hold the resources and the earth as a «trust» for future generations.

For future generations his person became as lost in his work as, for his contemporaries, Thomas himself was lost in his own abstractions, even in close social situations or in the midst of extraordinary historical conflicts.

Our actions must be guided, in part, by concerns for future generations.

Our own relation to it must be predicated upon a careful understanding that earth and its resources are for any generation a restricted gift held in trust for future generations.

It may be in visiting forest or seacoast in periodic retreat, either alone or in small groups with time for solitude; it may be by seeking out the edges of wild country in park or garden in the quiet corners of the day; or for those unable to travel first - hand, it may be by preserving such spiritual topography for future generations.

Those who receive such a gift and benefit from it are duty - bound to conserve the resources and pass them on for future generations to enjoy.

And God said, «This is a sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the sky, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth» [emphasis added].

You are a bigot, and future generations will be embarrassed by you the same way we're embarrassed over Jim Crow.

«Religion» is the sum of customs and teachings in which the religiousness of a certain epoch of a people has been expressed and formed, crystallized in precepts and dogma, and handed down to all future generations as inalterably binding.

The Jewish people, who for centuries wandered the earth without a home, are determined to take action that will guarantee that this homeland is secure for future generations.

Don't we have an obligation to influence societies laws where we believe for the good of Society and future generations where possible?

Furthermore, the very words of Jesus indicate a warning for all future generations.

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

They think our obligation to be sparing in our use of resources and to avoid making the environment unhealthy, for the sake of future generations, requires us to combat global warming.

The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.

He has an admirable regard for our obligation to future generations and justly warns of dangers to our food supply, the consequence of lax safety regulation.

And that all future generations must rely upon these olden records.

Future generations are punished for something done by their ancestors.

Unfortunately I feel that this is the lasting image that my generation and future generations are going to have when the poster boys of the Christian name are those who flaunt it for gain in the political arena.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Furthermore, there seems to be specifically Christian wisdom at work in talk about the «ethics of long - range responsibility,» or in John Rawls's insistence that the notion of justice be expanded to include justice to future generations (A Theory of Justice [Harvard University Press, 1971]-RRB-.

While Scripture does at times include descriptions of unique sins that can not be committed by future generations — such as God's instruction to Adam to not eat fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil — it does not seem that this particular sin falls into that category.

At the level of national policy, it is now possible to despoil the American wilderness; since the end is near, we are no longer required to worry about consequences for future generations.

They have no clue that their neighbor just lost his job, that their coworker just got diagnosed with cancer, or that the decisions their local and national leaders are making will ravage future generations.

«Looking to future generations,» he wrote, «there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger, becoming perhaps fixed by inheritance... [so that] virtue will be triumphant.»

«And I think that's what still continues to drive me onwards when I face persecution that there is a cause for our nation; there is a cause for our generation and particularly future generations.