Sentences with phrase «mass of humans was»

Was property more sacred than the health and general welfare of great masses of human beings?

We lump masses of human beings in one indiscriminate confusion, make a sweeping classification, tag the group with name or nickname, and think that we have said something.

The muscle mass of humans is ∼ 40 % of the body weight; the muscle protein pool therefore represents a very large reservoir of BCAA in the body.

``... all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away -LSB-...] The location of towns would be decipherable, since for every massing of human beings there would be a corresponding massing of certain nematodes.

Not exact matches

Such contrasts can be seen when looking at the steady tattoo of allegations concerning mass atrocities leveled at Qaddafi of Libya (but after his demise never confirmed), compared to the almost complete failure to cover the uprising in Saudi Arabia — or ongoing human rights outrages there.

One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

With such a mass of information, the only way for humans to make any sense of the world is to make some approximations and assumptions, to look for the patterns, and try to find the constellations in the mess of stars.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

In terms of the large - scale, mass - produced economy, the utility of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply by automated systems.

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum

This guy should be living in the middle of space surrounded by a mass of cloud and human - like beings with wings.

Every officially atheist nation has been a cesspol of mass murder and denial of the most basic of human rights.

Is it the number one cause of mass homicide in human history?

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

For this reason the legend must be told in such a way that two things are apparent: how the saint was so holy that he controlled his surroundings; and how his life, from infancy, was under divine guidance and protection and hence was lifted out, by God Himself, from the mass of human misfortune.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

So far as we are able to follow its historical progress, the grouping and organization of the human mass has in the past been broadly governed far more by the principle of expansion than by that of compression.

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

Saving the animals only to enjoy the smell of a mass barbecue and choosing mass genocide because imperfectly made humans aren't pleasing enough... leaves us empty and perplexed, if we care at all.

the seeming absence 0f other selves within experience is what my theory implies would characterize human experience, since a self on that level could not conveniently manage other selves as clearly and distinctly manifest to it, but only selves on such a low level that only vague mass awareness of them would reach full consciousness, for individually taken they are too trivial to notice.

All the mass murderers of history have used lengthy reasoning to justify their killing, David Johnson is in good company and has risen to the highest ideals of atheism, total disregard for human life.

To some, the human fetus (Latin for «unborn child») is a mass of protoplasm which has no personal rights.

It has seemed incredible that human beings endowed with any power of reason should hypnotize themselves with doctrines of «national honor» or «sacred right» and pursue mass murder to exhaustion or ruin.»

Human nature is not subjected to corruption and depravity through the fall of Adam, as if Adam's fall has made humankind a mass of sinners.

The committee recognized that sexuality and violent actions are found in all of life, and that the mass media would be dishonest if it were to attempt to «sanitize» these dimensions of the human condition.

All that matters at this crucial moment is that the massing together of individualities should not take the form of a functional and enforced mechanization of human energies (the totalitarian principle), but of a «conspiracy» informed with love.

For the purposes of human action, entropy (a mass - effect rather than a law of the unit) is without meaning.

When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

o) In the Western societies too there is an alienation in consumerism, in work that neglects human values, in various forms of exploitation of humans, manipulated by the means of mass communication.

Morals do not come from belief and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape; human sacrifice; animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.

«Conquering» through love is one thing, conquering and taking control by the use of torture, intimidation, and mass killings is the epitome of human kind at its very worst.

A higher state of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers of the human mass, but without the emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system of a universal, defined and autonomous Center of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual highest end of hominization.

The rising of the masses and the socialisation of Mankind is associated with the closed shape of the earth, the mechanics of generation and the psychic properties of human matter.

If the problem of sustaining this human impetus does not trouble the theorists I have referred to, it is, I suppose, because they assume that cases of revulsion will be as exceptional in the future as they have been in the past — that a sufficient degree of physical health or euphoria will maintain vital pressure at a positive level, moderate but adequate, within the human mass.

Preceded by a tremor, a wave of «shared impulse» extending to the very depths of the social and ethnic masses in their need and claim to participate, without distinction of class or color, in the onward march of human affairs, the final act is already visibly preparing.

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

What goes on around us in the human mass is not merely a flurry of disordered movement, as in a gas; something is purposefully stirring, as in a living being.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

Apart from religion, Whitehead was to write, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

But in the Christian view only the eventual appearance, at the summit and in the heart of the unified world, of an autonomous center of congregation is structurally and functionally capable of inspiring, preserving and fully releasing, within a human mass still spiritually dispersed, the looked - for forces of unanimisation.

The human mass is spiritually warmed and illumined by the iron grip of planetary compression; and the warming, whereby the rays of individual interaction expand, induces a further increase, in a kind of recoil, of the compression which was its cause... and so on, in a chain - reaction of increasing rapidity.

The unique factor about the present situation is that the vast human potentiality for destructiveness (in blocked creativity) is now armed with fiendish instruments of mass annihilation.

Understanding, discovery, invention... From the first awakening of his reflective consciousness, Man has been possessed by the demon of discovery; but until a very recent epoch this profound need remained latent, diffused and unorganized in the human mass.

The extent to which men of this generation are absorbed with themselves and permit that absorption to filter the accumulated masses of human experience and utterance is a formidable fact in teaching and in preaching.

At this level, Whitehead writes, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

So what finally lies ahead of us is a planetary arrangement of human mass and energy, coinciding with a maximal radiation of thought — at once the external and internal «planetization» of Mankind.