Sentences with phrase «on human misery»

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In buying (or in shorting) «cat bonds,» an investor is wagering on human misery.

Not exact matches

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

If god created all the organisms on the planet, then He must have created even the diseases that have caused and are causing so much death and misery for humans and animals.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

The liberal instinct is to blame human misery on environmental factors, and tell those affected that they have nothing to be ashamed of.

Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Agean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The idea that one needs a sky daddy who threatens eternal damnation in order to behave like a civilized and decent human being has caused more bloodshed and misery than any other idea on the planet.

The disciples were with Jesus only and he led them down the mountain to a world in need where «on the next day» (Luke) they were confronted with human misery and with a call for help (Mk.9: 14 - 29).

This has become the cause of all human misery, and much suffering that one man has put on another through out of our bloody history.

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

On the other hand, the techniques of postcivilization also offer us the possibility of a society in which the major sources of human misery have been eliminated, a society in which there will be no war, poverty, or disease, and in which a large majority of human beings will be able to live out their lives in relative freedom from most of the ills which now oppress a major part of mankind.

Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it by helping people learn how to live in a complex world.»

No - one wants these people to go on to commit more crime, create more victims and more human misery.

We had been working 14 - hour days in the makeshift intensive care unit at the Buen Samaritano clinic on the outskirts of Jimaní in the Dominican Republic, and none of us had ever before seen, much less been responsible for, a unit so laden with human misery.

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In the early 20th century Joan Miró became known for his blue dream paintings, and Pablo Picasso developed his Blue Period that centered on the somber subject of human misery.

CO2 emissions are already having a detrimental effect on human welfare and continued CO2 emissions will have a catastrophically detrimental effect on human welfare, causing unspeakable misery and suffering, impoverishment and displacement and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rHuman beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rhuman society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rhuman misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»

When presented with FACTS about the very real human suffering caused by their fans (ie the daily acoustic misery lived by thousands of people globally, just like those in this video) these monsters fallback on the «threat» of man - made catastrophic global warming in an effort to justify it.

Now that Al Gore has admitted to causing untold human hunger and misery on a mistaken premise with his food to fuel conversion project, maybe he should be stripped of the Nobel Prize so it can be given to a real climate scientist such as Henrik Svensmark.

More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries endorsed the caution, which comes on the 25th anniversary of a letter released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992, advising that «a great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided.»

For surgeons are doctors who perform surgery on humans and animals by cutting open their body to perform surgery in order to relieve them of their pain and misery.