Sentences with phrase «of basic human decency»

In that game, if you met another human, there was always the possibility that you could team up and create an ad - hoc community — there was a tinge of optimism, of basic human decency.

I hope they die,» shows a lack of basic human decency.

«Today's decision is disappointing and flies in the face of basic human decency,» Paxton said.

Leading by example might not be sufficient to sustain the bank, but it's hard not to see TD's core values — like service and respect for its employees — as manifestations of the basic human decency of its CEO.

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I'm atheist so this has nothing to do with religion, just basic human decency of which Limburger has none.

The girl in this situation was very brave and I commend that, while the boy was being a NORMAL gentleman whose parents taught him the most basic principles of human decency when it comes to treating women.

The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.

This is basic human decency which does not go nearly as far as God would require of us in loving our enemies.

Every time I hear someone start talking about how Christianity needs to be more «manly» or «masculine» - or, by contrast, less effeminate - it seems to come at the cost of basic politeness and human decency, of empathy and forgiveness.

We need to stand up in the face of the threats we are seeing to our democracy and basic human decency.

Instead of being welcomed with what one would expect to be a basic level of human decency, it was treated as confirmation of every deranged thought the internet had ever had.

«It was an affront to all the basic principles of free trade, of human decency and of international responsibility,» said Conservative MEP Charles Tannock.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

Michael Gove's defence of his leader on the grounds that he possesses «basic human decency» shows just how desperate the Tory high command's position now is.

«The US administration has shown a consistent disregard for the Geneva Conventions and basic principles of law, human rights and decency,» says Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general.

«Those are guys who lack some basic level of human decency, they have done some unforgivable things.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

The slogan getting back to basics might well be dusted off and used to mean teaching the basic fundamentals of human decency instead of the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic!

I don't think I'm doing enough, I'm barely meeting the basic levels of human decency, and somehow that's exemplary.

Or, alternatively, they can look at a photographic database of disfigured war veterans and copy from there, assuming they're not concerned with matters like «ethics» or «basic human decency.»

Honor, at the least, means not exploiting the trust of vulnerable others for your own advantage — including strangers — who are relying on certain basic standards of human decency.

It has cast doubts on the integrity of many individuals, and ultimately has denied Indigenous people basic human dignity and decency.