Sentences with phrase «noble ideals»

French philosopher Alain Finkiel kraut's subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question: How did the West's noble ideal of universal humanity» the belief that, beneath the particularities of race and culture, we're all brothers, duty «bound....

Do these early texts, and does Christianity as a religion, contain an appreciation for humankind's highest virtues and most noble ideals?»

Inspired by the ancient Greeks, neoclassical architecture speaks to some of Western civilization's most noble ideals — notions of symmetry and harmony and principles of representative democracy.

You never read the Bible so you'll never find where they got all their noble ideals.

These are noble ideals, and the willingness to give of oneself generously that they may be realized is indeed commendable.

We are content with mediocrity when we should be animated by noble ideals.

Even if it is a humble and noble ideal, it will enforce the same demands.

«Pacifism links a noble ideal — the avoidance of violence — to naive and implausible assumptions about the inherent goodness of human nature.

There were moments therefore when optimism was justifiably high, when the bestowal of benefits was to be rearranged and the status quo altered in the name of America's noblest ideals.

But these noble ideals are here gravely misapplied.

So the correct social choice wasn't «the redistribution of wealth and incomes» but «the noble ideals of personal responsibility».

Delivering a speech at the 38th anniversary celebration of the June 4, 1979 «revolution» in Wa, the Upper West Regional capital on Sunday, the former minister, said «if that is done, this will ensure that we reconstruct our party on these noble ideals which in the past have propelled us from victory onto victory in competing with our opponents of the property owning class.»

Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has appealed to all Nigerians to eschew bitterness and recommit themselves to noble ideals...

He charged critical stakeholders such as the members of the National Assembly, civil society organisations and the media not to abdicate their roles of defending and promoting the noble ideals of democracy even in the face of constant threats and intimidation.

What about the noble ideal that the captain and crew put the passengers first and go down with the ship?

Although his colleagues applaud and seemingly affirm his noble ideals, he is fired within a few days.

That the movie attempts this noble ideal by ignobly putting those characters — and by extension actors Al Pacino and Christopher Walken — through a series of undignified situations is an irony completely lost on director Fisher Stevens.

About 80 years ago, buying U.S. - made products was more than a noble ideal or an admirable goal — it was law, as least for government buyers.

The French Revolution may have had its share of brutality but out of it came some noble ideals worth championing.

In all honesty, Red Wedding Week was good for those Gamergaters who actually have noble ideals about ethics in games journalism, in that it did actually expel or minimize some of GamerGaters worst agents who were driving some of the stuff that riles up opposition and makes Gamergate look very bad.

As for the UN, they have moved so far from the noble ideals encapsulated in their founding charter, and have deserted their primary mission in a much more heinous manner than the body they replaced, that is past time for Western Nations to repudiate its role in international affairs, denounce their support of the UN, cancel all funding to the UN and see how long the last without the support of the West.

Justice McLachlin's goal of encouraging mediation and settlement is a noble ideal.