Sentences with phrase «more civilized persons»

I'd like to think I was a more civilized person than to wish physical violence on anyone but hey, I'm not.

Not exact matches

For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we can not now see any way in which it can be overcome.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

at least in every single muslim country someone can practice their religion... and i know for a fact that theres dozens of churches in jordan and many other muslim countries, JUST not in saudi arabia, which you people feel obliged to keep poking at... if you don't respect their most holy spot, how do you call yourselves «civilized people», more like bullies..

However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).

That is the only people we can not have because they threaten to destroy the very fabric of what we are attempting to create, a more civilized society for all.

«But because of more stringent laws at a time when society was different, courts overcharged people and maximized their sentences beyond what is considered reasonable by a civilized society.»

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.

In contrast to these robustly healthy people, those who had switched to a more «civilized» diet of processed foods, sodas, and other westernized products soon began to manifest modern diseases and produce offspring with narrow jaws and crowded teeth, and more narrow faces.

I know this will sound insane to most people who live in the civilized world, but I just discovered how dreamy H&M... Read more»

This may be helpful, at times, for people who are new to this dating and are more inclined towards civilized social settings.

-- should be front and center in people's brains; maybe such a connection to nature would help to make us more civilized.

If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we're forced to talk about books we haven't read?

You can choose to write something more people will enjoy / value, or stick to your guns and complain about the fall of civilized society.

I think wilderness is, to some extent, a state of mind, and to some extent a necessarily paradoxical state of mind, because it's about a place that exists by your denial of it; the more you as a civilized person are in it, the less wild it is, because you are there.

Even if we assume the Eastern Woodland culture was no more successful than the much less civilized (meaning much less agriculturized) hunter - gatherer cultures of today's South American rain forests, their 2.5 people per square mile population density times the 2.6 million square kilometer Eastern Woodland area results in a possible Eastern Woodland area population of 6.5 million people.

Can we act to make the maddening, the stressing, the enraging process of divorce more sensible, more civilized so fewer people are killed?

If the journey was more civilized than it is today we would have a better country with far less harried, haggard, short - tempered people.