Sentences with phrase «not statesmen»

The universal class is not the statesmen but rather, as Marx claimed, the oppressed who comprise the vast majority of the world's population.

This isn't a statesman - like speech.

Not exact matches

Analysts interviewed by the Austin American - Statesman said that Dell taking his company private is an unlikely, but not impossible move.

There was Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - Utah), the senior statesman from my home state, who couldn't imagine how a «free service» like Facebook could possibly make money.

That wasn't the case for Guerin and the league's elder statesmen, though countless others have reaped the rewards of the expiring CBA, one whose perks they'll try to preserve as much as possible in the next labour agreement.

Perhaps these are the tactics of Donald Trump as a wheeler - dealer in the world of business, but they certainly do not befit a statesman or president of the leading global power.

Even if Trump's provocations reflected his true feelings or those of the average citizen, it is not the role of the statesman to give voice to feelings.

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

And they didn't enter political life to settle for some regular Republican who's more like a CEO than a principled statesman.

As the great theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper once observed, «In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, «That is mine!»»

Making (i.e., choosing) wars is what politicians do, such as the warrior - statesman Henry V. Coriolanus is thus not focused upon weighing the value of war (which K. Branagh was right to detect in Henry V), but rather is zeroed in upon the tragedy of the polis.

As Pete reports, the statesman Gates explains that Congress (where both parties are very well organized) really wasn't good enough for him or any decent and civilized person.

Seems to me that if we elected real statesmen and not just politicians, we could get to work and make our government truly represent the people and solve some actual problems instead of creating them.

Similarly, a statesman who knows the art of statesmanship should govern according to this knowledge, not according to the shifting whims of a fickle and untutored public.

Michael Burleigh's study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than the one we behold today — not the polity of bureaucrats in Brussels but a Europe of statesmen and revolutionaries who aimed at the most extravagant notions of national destiny.

There is enough here for you to find a career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.

They must not join others in passionate condemnation (or support), in the name of fifty humanist motifs put forward by non-Christians, of such a politics conducted by a statesman who calls himself Christian.

Is not moral, social, or political normative evaluation an attempt to discover patterns of social «weaving,» as Plato put it in the Statesman, which carry over the achieved values of the participants while achieving greater value through their interactions?

In ideal democracy the statesman is a leader of the people, not their lackey.

He is not a politician whose only thought is to gain and hold political power, but a statesman whose central concern is for the right conduct of public affairs.

«The traditional burial of poets, statesmen and great national figures, and indeed kings and queens, has actually ceased... partly because you couldn't find any more room for the bodies,» Carpenter said.

Or a statesman's unthinking remark may begin the debate that will end not in death for us but in an unforeseeably long process of destruction.

I am convinced that the hope of peace lies not so much in statesmen, who have already shown themselves bankrupt of ideas, but in people of all countries who demand the cessation of war in which they pay so horrible a price [W. A. Swanberg, Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist, Scribners (1976) p. 58].

Update (Feb. 1): In his first public comments, Saeed Abedini told the Idaho Statesman that «much of what I have read in Naghmeh's posts and subsequent media reports is not true,» but he plans to work on rebuilding their marriage in private because «personal issues are best dealt with personally.»

Moreover, and contrary to the prevailing portrait, the position slowly and meticulously developed by Russell can not be dismissed merely as the inconsistent or ad hoc view of an elderly philosophic statesman in his mental decline.

15) And whereas it is appropriate for those who aspire to be statesmen or even profound artists to appear thoughtful, prudent, and calculating, it is not so for one aspiring to be a rock star.

So the reason, Tocqueville explains, that most Americans shouldn't read the Greek and Roman authors is that they celebrate aristocratic ways of life — philosophers, warriors, statesmen, and such.

The dictum that «the Sermon on the Mount is not for statesmen,» has become a predominant influence upon Christian political theory in our time.3 One contemporary Christian philosopher rejects all naïve ethical idealism in politics with the assertion: «The Christian kingdom is not of this world, it belongs to the realm of the spirit.

As the American journal, The New Yorker, observed with remarkable penetration on August 18th, 1945: «Political plans for the new world, as shaped by statesmen, are not fantastic enough.

A modern statesman would not need to change a single word.

When he deals with a mentally disturbed person he can not take the place of the psychiatrist, but neither can the psychiatrist take his place; when political issues are involved, he can not fulfill the functions of the statesman, but neither can the statesman, as statesman, illuminate a civil crisis by bringing only ultimate perspectives to bear on it.

Wilbur, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, is an elder statesman of American letters and may well represent, though I don't know anything about his actual politics, one....

I couldn't reconcile the divergence between the praise of Romney as statesman and despair about Romney as obfuscating politician.

Because he was not a philosopher and there are no prophets, Moses becomes a mere statesman, ministering to a rather primitive people.

I don't» care who you are, you can be a doctor, a noble statesman / woman, king or a queen, or the most powerful person on earth!

They also say, however, that our Founders built not as theorists, but statesmen.

Trevor Weldon Ingram, the person suspected of emailing the threat was caught and could face up to 10 years on charges of making a terroristic threat, according to the Austin American - Statesman, but officials don't think he's responsible for the explosions.

One thinks of William Temple, who in more ways than one deserved the phrase humorously applied to him in early days, «not one, but all mankind in effigy,» 46 Those who think of him first of all as philosopher, Christian socialist, ecumenical statesman, or evangelist should remember that it was the priesthood of the Church of England to which his life was primarily devoted, and by its traditions that he was inspired.

Though Wenger is clearly more renowned for bringing in youthful additions he is not averse to strengthening his squad with the signing of elder statesman on short - term deals and may well feel that chance to land Malouda on what would surely be a nominal fee is a move well worth making.

So Giggs reinvented himself as a kind of utility midfielder and elder statesman, while at the same accepting that he wasn't going to be first choice every week.

When asked by Kirk Bohls of the Austin Statesman if he'd consider selling the team, Precourt replied, «I'm not a seller.»

Your last article reminds me of a very good piece by Ed Smith in the New Statesman in September about Wenger's wilful blind spots - worth a read if you haven't seen it.

I know Trevion's the senior statesman among the WRs, has cross-trained at every position at this point, and has often logged snaps at multiple positions in - game, but is he not getting a chance to be The Guy at the 9?

I don't see why it can't happen for me,» Ghim told Kirk Bohls of the Austin American - Statesmen.

Gabi (7): It seems odd that the elder statesman of the Atleti midfield is not the player chosen to sit deepest to conserve his energy, but Diego Simeone seemingly prefers for his captain to be more involved in the attack.

Yes, says David Allen Green, legal correspondent of the New Statesman, who suggests legal advice for anyone considering marriage wouldn't be such a bad idea:

While I would've considered crossing the party line for a statesman like Richard Lugar, you do not have his thoughtfulness, his honesty, or his dedication to serving his constituency instead of just your personal agenda.

But no, he didn't address any of the real issues; he chose to rather cast diatribes, hurl insults and blatant personal attacks on the person of Dr. Bawumia,» he bemoaned in an interview the Daily Statesman yesterday.

«Many quiet, moderate members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off in the current climate,» a Labour MP told the New Statesman.

In my career I have met some wonderful politicians and inspirational statesmen but these youngsters were thoroughly disillusioned with politics and disgusted by MPs who've feathered their own nests but failed to help them find their first job.