Sentences with phrase «of a decent society»
Shouldn't this be the price of a decent society?
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They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical identities and a more active participation in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»
But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it's adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it's as corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo's staff.
Indeed, my first book, Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville, identifies hierarchy as an essential element of any decent society.
«The building blocks of a decent society are being torn down and replaced with one where profiteers and privateers are revered and feted, where the wealthy and privileged thrive, while ordinary working people's basic rights and entitlements are stripped away.
When hostilities ceased, they ran amok on the streets of Wonderland's capital city, looting and pillaging Wondertropolis until Queen Genevieve had them rounded up and shipped off to the Crystal Mines — a spiderweb - like network of tunnels carved in a far - off mountainside, where those unwilling to abide by the laws of decent society lived in windowless dormitories and labored to excavate crystal from the unforgiving mountain.
She catches our eyes with an unapologetic stare resonant of a two - decade - long artistic practice seeped in the documentation of others: their carnality, gender, and especially the lives of women living on the fringes of decent society.
«At the heart of any notion of a decent society is not only that we have rights and protections under the law but that we can enforce those rights and rely upon those protections if needed,»» the radical lawyer went on to say.