Sentences with phrase «individual pursuit of happiness»

Another form is reckless self - affirmation and concentration on one's own life and individual pursuit of happiness.

Not exact matches

Individuals feel part of a cause greater than the self - interested pursuit of personal happiness.

He does not accept that the real greater good comes from the efforts of individuals exercising their freedom and that government exists principally to enable them to pursue their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When the founding fathers wrote about the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence, they had in mind the idea that governments should follow the example of God in respecting individuals to make their own decisions, and treat everyone equally and fairly under the law.

America needs a moral philosophy which is consistent with the individual's pursuit of his own life, happiness, and well - being.

«The mission of the Ayn Rand Center is to advance individual rights (the rights of each person to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness) as the moral basis for a fully free, laissez - faire capitalist society.»

Why would a person of faith not want the gay or lesbian individual to enjoy the happiness derived from the pursuit of marriage sanctity?

Why would we as Americans not want our government and its laws to recognize that same marriage sanctity for gay and lesbian individuals in their pursuit of liberty and happiness?

Of course, the «be nice» commandment does not extend to those who oppose one's political ideology or stand in the way of the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherOf course, the «be nice» commandment does not extend to those who oppose one's political ideology or stand in the way of the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherof the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of otherof others.

While striving for this end, the natural goals (the secular purusharthas — artha, kama, and dharma — pursuit of wealth, happiness and duties of one's social station) of civil society are organized according to the laws of sadharana dharma of ahimsa, varnasrama dharma of four social vocations and the asrama stages of individual life.

And the reason that it occurs, and the reason that it's there and the reason that it's an individual right, is because our founders wrote it to protect the fundamental rights that we get from God that are expressed in the Declaration of Independence and those are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of happiness also means property.»

However, it is accepted that there are limits on an individual's pursuit of happiness or pleasure which are imposed by legal, ethical, familial and commonsense constraints.

And apropos of dbostrom # 361, illuminating the deep fear of loss of individual freedom that drives Lindzen, Fred Singer, and so many others: note that in practice this means the freedom to add another billion people every 15 years, to dig up anything we possibly can and turn it into stuff we like to consume, and to protect multinational corporations from interference in their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

I think that rational civilized government policies ought to give incentives, coercion, and even mandates to maximize the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of individuals, as well as promote the common welfare.

The plaintiffs also argue that the law interferes with «an individual's right to select what they eat and drink,» included in the state constitution's guarantee of «life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.»