Sentences with phrase «human decency as»

Source Code is not only a gripping thriller, but a cautionary tale about the dark side of scientific advances and human decency as a counterbalance.

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Leading by example might not be sufficient to sustain the bank, but it's hard not to see TD's core values — like service and respect for its employees — as manifestations of the basic human decency of its CEO.

As I've discussed before, the President has again and again traduced American values of international cooperation, of integrity in government, and of human decency.

Interesting how having faith means setting aside all normal human decency and refusing others rights to interpret the «word of god» as they feel is right and correct.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

Karl Marx, and others with a heart, felt the need for a revolutionary humanization of the system as inevitable and morally mandatory for the dignity and decency of the human person.

Like this: «Truly honoring God and the highest and best of all that is, is found in simple acts of kindness and human decency, such as taking care of orphans, widows, and those on the fringes of your society.»

Human rights, however perverted by Western progressivism, serves as a baseline of human decHuman rights, however perverted by Western progressivism, serves as a baseline of human dechuman decency.

As long as human beings are capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguisheAs long as human beings are capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguisheas human beings are capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguished.

But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.

This is basic human decency which does not go nearly as far as God would require of us in loving our enemies.

Technological change, above all, doomed the fight for decency in American popular culture, as every successive technological innovation weakened the power of regulators, moral and otherwise, while expanding the venues where human weakness could be exploited for fun and profit (mainly the latter).

Decency as a human being has not led me to change this habit; the only thing I am using the knife for is to defend my idiosyncracy (okay, I kid — but I am not wasting my perfectly good time in trying to neatly cut a too - big piece of that coconut chocolate off when it doesn't deserve it).

Instead of being welcomed with what one would expect to be a basic level of human decency, it was treated as confirmation of every deranged thought the internet had ever had.

In the end, the outrage one must feel about this crime against an individual who expressed human regard and decency is conveyed, and Nekrasov's dedication to tell as much of the story as he can is more than appropriate and duly recorded.

As Joe leads Seligman along from her preadolescent discovery of sexual pleasure, to her unceremonious virginity loss to on - again, off - again partner Jerome (Shia LaBeouf, affecting a convincing English accent), to her inculcation into an anti-love feminist order, to the loss of her beloved father (Christian Slater, affecting a less convincing English accent), the two quarrel over the nature of human decency, the shamefulness and empowerment of sexuality, and so on.

The scenes between these men, staring at each other across a table in a barred room in the prison, work, not so much as intellectual debates (because anyone with a shred of decency will know that Blomfeld is wrong), but as a study of patience and the willingness to find some understanding with another human being — even a man as monstrous as Blomfeld.

I'd submit that if basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain it is inappropriate for you to be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain by identifying everything evil in the world as leftwing.

But when a neighbor helps our a neighbor simply because it's the right thing to do, GDP doesn't bat an eyelid — in fact it sometimes takes a nose dive as paid services are replaced by an act of simple human decency.

These are typically framed as defences to human rights complaints (e.g. blanket defences for hiring one's own personal care attendant; BFOQ defences permitting discrimination on the basis of sex because of the nature of the employment; and public decency defences for exclusion in the provision of goods and services.

January has started with Google being sued after firing their employee last year, so we have a thought - provoking article questioning if political correctness (also known as human decency) has gone too far and if you can be fired for being «too» conservative.

I have little doubt that many Australians were deeply disturbed by the histories of abuse and the damage done to so many lives, so counterproductive to our collective interests and to the view of our society as staunch in its foundation on the values of fairness, decency and respect for the human rights of all its members.