Sentences with phrase «of civilized persons»

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

It could become a place which gives substance to the cry of all civilized people, «Never again» [The Pilot, August 30, 1989].

In this case, of the son, surely the sons of traitors are not automatic targets of civilized people.

The empire which it governed was made up chiefly of city - states and embraced some of the oldest of civilized peoples.

The vibrant health of these native peoples was a shocking departure from the health of the civilized people of his day.

Sure, but, the intent of the applicances were to make the lives of civilized people easier.

«The common feature which unites the activities most consistently forbidden by the moral codes of civilized peoples is that by their very nature they can not be both habitual and enduring, because they tend to destroy the conditions which make them possible.»

Just a generation ago, the mark of a civilized person was an appreciation of Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Thucydides, Rembrandt and Beethoven.

Unlike actual, real gold, which has held value in the eyes of civilized people since before Christ, we could all pretty much agree tomorrow that Bitcoin was worthless without it really affecting anything.

Not exact matches

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of otherwise civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.

Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of otherwise - civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.

Lots of gay people remain decent, civilized human beings, despite their practicing homosexuality.

religion was created to A. keep the masses afraid and B. to create a ruling class when there wasn't a form of government to keep people civilized.

I say the civilized Western world and it's people should simply get out of your countries and let you kill each other off.

You mention «uncivilized people,» yet the concept of posting a war trophy for people to mock and ridicule, is less civilized that even al Qaeda.

People like you and your awesome Rush do not belong in civilized society of 21C.

Don't you really mean below, cause if you are reading messages newest to oldest (like the rest of civilized society) you would not know what people are planning to say!

By choosing to massively attack innocent people, the perpetrators of these acts have lost any right to have their point of view considered by civilized people.

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

As a non-believer myself, I am glad some of us can talk like civilized people.

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.»

The majority of people in the civilized world are evolutionists for the same reason that the majority don't believe that the world is flat.

Given the right conditions for growth, people of any shade of skin, any religion, or any nationality can develop into capable, cultivated, and civilized human beings.

Companies, like individuals, are wise to take note of the local customs and not just have the arrogance of the imperialists who assume that every civilized person goes along with their dress codes and cultural standards.

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.

As with all religions followed by all manner of people, their needs to be understanding brought about thru civilized conjectures found out to be as an educational sermon toward all and everyone's faith subjective rationalisms.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector, quoted King George VI's words to the British people in 1939: «We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called... to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.»

Lastly, the collective individuality, or solidarity, of a civilized society is realized as one community of many persons.

A civilized society is at least something greater than a simple mixture of homogenized persons.

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.

I have read somewhere on the wall of a house and it says, «if undressing is the civilization then animals are the most civilized person in the face of earth»

The efficacy of a civilized society, regardless of its apparent authority in the affairs of individuals, is in reality nothing but the cooperative agency of many persons functioning, either officially or informally, to carry on the daily exercise of accepted practice.

People who speak out of terms for no reason at all and disrespect others are not civilized at all.

And with situations like this it is public whether the families want it to be or not and most of the people who hear this kind of thing are saddened and mourn the loss of the victims as well — or at least civilized human beings do.

Equally so, a civilized society, as one whole and regardless of its particular political orientation, exerts its influence solely in terms of the individual effort of persons, acting either alone or in concert with one another.

The sad thing is that so many countries (and religious and political groups) want that cartoon's header to be a representation of how many non - heterosexual / non - heteroromantic / non-cisgender people there are in their «civilized and superior» society.

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.

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

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..

The American commercial republic was conceived as an institutional design that would stir the self - interest of individuals to produce not brutal competition but civilized emulation, uplifting the people's material and moral standards of life.

One can not but regret that later generations in his homeland did not avail themselves of the precious heritage which Humboldt bequeathed to his nation and did not use the bridges which this philosopher of freedom had constructed over the gulfs that separate the peoples of the civilized world.

The number of people through out the history of «civilized man» killed in the name of Jesus.

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).

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.

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.

So this mindset puts you add odds with a whole lot of other people, who even though they may disagree on things, may actually be able to discuss their differences in a civilized way.