Sentences with phrase «living in a civilized society»

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.

«As part of living in a civilized society, it is our obligation to look after those who are weak, sick, or powerless,» says Slater.

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.

If we're going to live in a civilized society, we always have to consider not only the needs and rights of others around us, but also the bigger picture of what's happening globally.

Not exact matches

Go through the posts and observe their sizes, and make no post that is any longer than the others — this is the first principle of civilized living in society.

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.»

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.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

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.»

A civilized society, itself a one living in the many, and a many striving to live as one, comes to exemplify the ultimate creativity of things.

One asks: How could the Holocaust have occurred in a highly civilized society rich in historical mores, the practice of religion, and a vigorous intellectual life?

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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.

Ultimately, Falk and Hildebolt found that people living in small - scale societies are not inherently more violent that those living in «civilized» states, and that war deaths scale similarly with population sizes across all levels of human society.

Development of such qualities will help them succeed in life and contribute to a civilized society.

Thank you your attention, thank you Chancellor for your invitation and thank all of you in advance for the great work I know you're going to do, over the rest of your lives, to support humanity's struggle to create the civilized and sustainable society to which we aspire.

Although we live in a (generally) civilized society, misunderstandings can lead to unintended physical altercations.