Sentences with phrase «of 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.
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.
Human rights, however perverted by Western progressivism, serves as a baseline of human decency.
The cross is offensive to the love of Human Decency!
You so - called «believers» are weak minded fools who more often than not use your gods to explain what you can not otherwise grasp or to justify your actions even when they fly in the face of human decency.
The integrity of Christianity — along with most forms of human decency — was not strengthened by the demise of the Roman Empire, nor by the collapse of the corrupted Weimar Republic.
On a more hopeful note, the article describes ways in which Sunni and Shia neighbors are protecting each other from militia raids and assassins — moments of human decency outlined against a stark backdrop of horrific acts.
The point is that they aren't being compared to their peers, but to expectations of human decency, legality, or even Bond Villains.
Either senior figures in Ukip have become so engrossed with their politics that they are incapable of human decency, or there is a party strategy of utilising highly upsetting events to further its political agenda.
I think biological determinism has a degree of human decency and kindness about it that is completely absent from the environmentalist view espoused by Puritans who want to make everyone behave in a particular way.
But all - pervasive cynicism and utilitarianism eventually sicken anyone who has any sense of human decency.
As Joe leads Seligman along from her preadolescent discovery of sexual pleasure, to her unceremonious virginity loss to on - again, off - again partner Jerome (Shia LaBeouf, affecting a convincing English accent), to her inculcation into an anti-love feminist order, to the loss of her beloved father (Christian Slater, affecting a less convincing English accent), the two quarrel over the nature of human decency, the shamefulness and empowerment of sexuality, and so on.
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!
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.
«Those are guys who lack some basic level of human decency, they have done some unforgivable things.
Beyond the scriptural case against homosexual bigotry however, is the greater principle of human decency.
As I've discussed before, the President has again and again traduced American values of international cooperation, of integrity in government, and of human decency.
Those same people will smile and applaud the bold choice of Rice without an ounce of irony, because this sport has so warped their brains that one minute they will side with the rules of the NCAA and the next minute against those of human decency, the Geneva Convention, and every tenet of even the loosest definition of human rights.
«It was an affront to all the basic principles of free trade, of human decency and of international responsibility,» said Conservative MEP Charles Tannock.
I don't think I'm doing enough, I'm barely meeting the basic levels of human decency, and somehow that's exemplary.
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