Sentences with phrase «human decency in»

But I can see how it must be difficult for people to set aside common sense and human decency in order to maintain their religious beliefs.

Not exact matches

Habits — the right ones — wield positive results because certain laws in human nature are reciprocal: being trustworthy builds trust, keeping promises builds integrity, selflessness builds service, kindness builds decency.

So arbitration is never intended for allegations about human decency; it's just been filtered into being used in that way.

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.

Honestly, if anyone in the picture is a wh / ore, it would be Limbaugh, because he has pimped out his human decency for fame and a bigger paycheck.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

just happens to be concerned with human beings, it's bound to be much more concerned about how we generally treat each other: you know, decency, concern, empathy --- all the things that are so important in this otherwise bleak and indifferent universe.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

@ Ken, just because one doesn't believe in creationism does not mean one lacks human decency where they become immoral.

So morality (I hate using that word because the concept is really human decency) is actually based in the individual, and imperfectly codified in the cultural; it is not distant or God - based.

«Today's decision is disappointing and flies in the face of basic human decency,» Paxton said.

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.»

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other.

The standards of decency and honor and human compassion which were valid and prized among individuals in the little communities of Palestine did not cease their high demands when one stepped over the boundary into Syria or Philistia; but there alike men were human, with human needs and, consequently, with human standards.

You so - called «believers» are weak minded fools who more often than not use your gods to explain what you can not otherwise grasp or to justify your actions even when they fly in the face of human 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 extinguished.

The girl in this situation was very brave and I commend that, while the boy was being a NORMAL gentleman whose parents taught him the most basic principles of human decency when it comes to treating women.

When «doing right» gets in the way of compassion and human decency, then perhaps you should reconsider what you think is «right».

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.

Unless survival can be with dignity and decency, unless there can be some prospect of a good life in a good society, perhaps it is better that the whole human experiment end soon.

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).

I've traveled through different theologies, read countless books and commentaries, and have reached a point in my own personal journey where I honestly feel that way too many «serious» committed Christians put far too much emphasis on theological principles than they do basic human decency.

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).

We need to stand up in the face of the threats we are seeing to our democracy and basic human decency.

On a more hopeful note, the article describes ways in which Sunni and Shia neighbors are protecting each other from militia raids and assassins — moments of human decency outlined against a stark backdrop of horrific acts.

Either senior figures in Ukip have become so engrossed with their politics that they are incapable of human decency, or there is a party strategy of utilising highly upsetting events to further its political agenda.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

I think biological determinism has a degree of human decency and kindness about it that is completely absent from the environmentalist view espoused by Puritans who want to make everyone behave in a particular way.

In these cases, your basic human decency may not serve you well; you may need to work at achieving and maintaining a comfortable working relationship.

It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency,» Randi admonished in a tweet after the photo was removed.

In the end, human decency and resilience are this narrative's common threads.

Jobs's chief struggle in most of his interactions, whether he admits it or not, is with common human decency.

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.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

Beyond his obvious great taste in television, this man has been a champion for American values and human decency these last 8 years, and, likely, for most of his 55.

It's not that Battleship is far more sophisticated than that, it just has the decency to retain interest in its human characters and give them more to do than simply being surrounded by metal and explosions.

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.

Of course, in a movie like «Happy Death Day» this sort character detail of what should be common human decency means Carter is the nice guy love interest.

In this case, history and basic human decency tell us that answer is resoundingly «Yes.»

I should reconcile myself at the outset to the fact that there is no point in listening to the fashionable egalitarian voices that maintain that private schooling is an offence against human decency.

The fact that Lewis didn't do so — and that Ravitch tacitly agrees with her statements by approvingly publishing them in full — shows that both women are lacking both in civility, manners, and basic human decency.

But it was in early 2009 while watching Les Miserable's — a story about a hero on the right side of human decency but the wrong side of the law — that Khan was inspired to write about his homeland.

Since the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional, 28 millions of Black Americans and many whites, including tens of thousands of clergy and hundreds of thousands of youth, have marched, sat in, demonstrated and picketed, gone to jail, suffered beatings and the thrust of cattle prods in the struggle for human decency and equality.

I'll answer any question that any investor has in a venue in which human decency is being respected.

In that game, if you met another human, there was always the possibility that you could team up and create an ad - hoc community — there was a tinge of optimism, of basic human decency.

I still held onto my last crumbs of self decency and refused to fight in queues for slop no beast would eat, let alone a human being.

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.

In any case, basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain, at least until the picture is really clear.

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.