Sentences with phrase «of moral people»

Should we find one day that this god actually exists, I would hope that you would stand on the side of the moral people and fight against such a god with whatever means available to us.

The idols of moral people are not usually what we would consider evils; but a good for which we have an inordinate love, something intrinsically good that we love more that God.

Not exact matches

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

These are indeed admirable qualities for a person to have and, in some situations, displaying them will serve you well, but both research and history suggest that great leaders aren't always paragons of unbending moral correctness.

Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us.

People operating within parameters of truth, honesty, and moral authority will listen to their heart and do the right thing, even when nobody is watching.

The youth appear uninterested in carrying any longer the burden of national moral responsibility for the evils of the Third Reich, and the hard - working people of Europe are disenchanted with the concept of toiling to keep idle Greeks and Portuguese at the beach on their state benefits that began when they retired prematurely from unproductive state jobs.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

Not everyone agrees on what is noble, for example, and there have been atrocious acts of history committed by people who sincerely believed they were acting on a moral ideal.

Given the huge number of moral disagreements in the world, we should think twice about becoming the sort of people who let such disagreements get in the way of engaging in mutually beneficial trade.

I've had dealings since then with some of the decision - makers behind the infamous attack ad that mocked Chrétien's facial paralysis; they are intelligent, reasonable and moral people.

Researchers tested the impact of fatigue on moral resolve, finding that people were more likely to lie the more tired they were.

This idea that we «deserve» to splurge on fancy meal after being thrifty for a week is called «moral licensing,» and it undermines a lot of people's plans for self - improvement.

People with moral depth can feel the lack of heart, the feeling of «soullessness.»

David Brooks, an opinion writer for the New York Times, once said that to impact people powerfully, leaders need to pursue the development of moral depth.

We want our people to have a great sense of ethics, morals and a sense of responsibility to their community and team.

In a series of controlled experiments, we asked participants, mostly average Americans in their 30s and 40s, to read about and evaluate the actions of fictional people who behaved in either a moral or immoral way.

So, if a business relies on a brand to make money, the risk in any «moral» position it takes on a social issue is exactly in proportion to the number of people who might take the opposite view.

The moral of the story here is this: Most investors, both everyday people and professionals, lose to the market.

Most people would also regard it as an example of the residual problem of the lender - of - last - resort — «moral hazard».

For some people, it's against their moral code to try to profit off of something failing.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

«I've been of the opinion that we should have a very big focus on developing alternatives, because alternatives would make it easier for people — would facilitate — the moral reasoning and the compassion.»

You only need to read the headlines to see the ethical and moral breaches in all walks of life (and that goes for scientists who who fudge figures as well as business people who fudge balance sheets).

In a particularly disturbing passage in the Casey opinion, the three deciding justices deliberately adopted the role of moral prophecy for a stubborn and recalcitrant people.

They managed to deliver tax breaks for the rich and oil companies, that's indisputable, but not on any of the «moral» issues they've used since the early 70s to get votes from religious people.

Use the bible for what it was intended, moral stories of how people should act, although current societal norms would certainly preclude stoning and other current justice and civil rights departures from the rigid teachings / interpretations of the bible.

The only people destroying the moral fiber of this country are all the religious people who judge others without knowing them.

Any «inspired» bible a work of men, reflecting the morals and knowledge of ancient people.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

Some people need more than just be moral for the sake of being moral they need a purpose for it.

First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

all you have to do is write a book and tell people god told you to write it instead of just telling everyone himself (lazy) then you can be a cults moral compass

In short, I consider this «reality» show as must see TV which attempts to convince non-Muslim viewers of Muslim self - importance, moral superiority, and feigned persecution with every condescending word uttered by these hypocritical, duplicitous people.

They somehow see us as having no morals, instead of people that do not need religion to be moral.

These ideas were the legends of ignorant people in our deep rooted past so help the living and to provide leadership to show people their morals.

You accuse Christians of being brainless and nasty, but most of the posts I've seen are from people who can't say enough to degrade and discredit others who take a moral stand on life, politics or whatever.

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

James Bradley Thayer warned nearly a century ago that «common and easy resort» to judicial review would tend «to dwarf the political capacity of the people, and to deaden its sense of moral responsibility.»

I prayed that a Republican would say something so ridiculously foul and ignorant that nobody with even half a brain or an ounce of moral character could possibly vote for them but that lots of people would show how stupid they truly are and vote for him anyway.

If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.

Academic moral theory, like preaching, «stiffens the backbone» of one's coreligionists (or co «ideologues) by «convincing people who think like you that they are not alone in their beliefs [and] have the backing of someone who is confident, competent, articulate, and thoughtful.»

This is one of the biggest lies religious people spew is the false connection between religion and «morals».

Societyvs, As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage --------- Oh no, they are destroying themselves and the moral fabric of my nation, too.

I don't see how I'm less moral of a person because I'm not one of you.

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

You know the sort of person I mean — those people more interested in an opportunity to assert their own moral superiority than in what either the blogger or the cited author has to say.