Sentences with phrase «society value people»

For example, in chapter seven, O'Brien discusses the over-representation of adults with SEND in the criminal justice system, while in chapter nine he asks how we make our society value people with SEND more.

«Your society values people by how much they have, ours by how much we give away,» Michael Greyeyes» Sitting Bull says.

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If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Millennial 1: What, is money your only benchmark for judging a person's value in society?

Behind all this banter lies a big idea: That by de-emphasizing economic growth and considering other things that people value, societies could make much better decisions about how to use their scarce resources.

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

Moreover, many Americans have become concerned about the indifference toward values and behavior that was so characteristic of the Great Society thrust, the aversion to holding persons responsible for those actions that precipitated their own dependence, the assumption that «society» is to blame for all the misfortune in theSociety thrust, the aversion to holding persons responsible for those actions that precipitated their own dependence, the assumption that «society» is to blame for all the misfortune in thesociety» is to blame for all the misfortune in the world.

The problem can be put thus: How are males in our society conditioned to value themselves as persons?

Both persons and societies have a derivative value in this metaphysical scheme, for it is only actual occasions of experience which have value in themselves.

When you live in a society where there is a high value placed on calling yourself Christian and going to church, and there are even promising career paths available, there's always going to be people who become Christians for the wrong reasons.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

Every culture and society has heroes — people who have lived a life imbued with a sense of value and contribution that far exceeds the status quo of «just living».

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

We don't do that because as society we believe that those people have values.

The freedom of the press is highly valued in a democracy and, with that freedom comes responsibility and hopefully people in the trade have integrity and a vision of their role in society.

There are also people in such societies who do not even nominally profess or assume any such allegiance to values and who pursue their autonomy, relying on the good faith of those who are dedicated to the right.

The value system of a person is the set of desires that govern his conduct, and the values of society are the will and preferences of the people as expressed in customs and through the activities of government.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

They imposed the idea of secular nationalism on the Indian peoples because they were convinced that it was the best basis for unity of pluralistic India and the best path towards building a new society based on the values of liberty, equality and justice.

We can work for good schools that prepare young people to live as productive members of society capable of appreciating the finer values of our heritage.

Also, your value that society around you and the people you encounter should be «benefitted» is able to be questioned.

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

Those theories are reassuring to people who suspect that «traditional» values are being eroded by life in a technological, secular society.

Dr Helen Stokes - Lampard, the chair of the Royal College of GPs told The Guardian: «While at face value the rise might seem alarming, it could also be indicative of better identification and diagnosis of mental health conditions across healthcare, and reducing stigma associated with mental health in society, leading to more people with mental health conditions seeking medical assistance.»

In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this relationship within the framework of the common good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»

He spoke on the value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.

In democratic society it values every individual and maintains academic freedom; in genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadership.

Any people and pastor wishing to take God's Word in Scripture seriously, therefore, will regularly be asking what issues or values in the surrounding society are addressed by that Word.

learned peaceful people have been saying for many years that most muslims and what they are taught is aganist Proper Moral Values and a peaceful society, and what they have done is prove these people to be correct.

Allow me to put this in sociological terms (sociology provides a limited but useful «grammar» here): Every human society has its own corpus of officially accredited wisdom, the beliefs and values that most people take for granted as self - evidently true.

In terms of the political system, the media, again reflecting the values held by society generally, give us politics by image, treating politicians and their campaigns as products to be sold rather than as people and ideas to be understood.

Democracy, on the other hand, is the way we, the people, have organized ourselves to create the society that reflects our values.

I hope that you are actually one of those who just ignores the fact that atheism is amoral and chooses to follow our society's religious values anyway and not one of those who secretly uses people because they realize there's nothing wrong with it.

as long as it is her womb.the baby is a parasite for all she cares... really truly selfish and demeaning of value of life... very shallow view... no wonder people get depressed and kill themselves... they feel they have no value with society's pathetic view of what life is and how they value it..

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

Second, society tends for the most part to judge the fruits of a person's life in the light of its own values and priorities.

We live in a society that wants to value everyones opinion right up until that person starts claiming any sort of exclusivity about their opinion.

The church can reorient society through the redirection of men's values, enabling them to be sensitive to the worth of persons, to respond with concern for their needs, and to establish corporate structures of justice.

You can be a person who does not believe in God and still behave according to major ethical and moral values of the society you live in, but to follow a faith requires a belief in God.

My basic appeal is for the development of a vision and a set of values appropriate to the emerging biological realities of the planetary society as an essential ingredient in accomplishing the political transformation that the fulfillment of life for all of earth's people demands.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES SYNONYMS 1.1 A particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society: a bourgeois morality MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES 1.2 The extent to which an action is right or wrong: behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

But in two regions of the population are a minority of persons who are either presently excluded from many of the benefits of the society or alienated from some of its operating assumptions and values.

There is considerable resonance between what ordinary people in society value and what the megachurches have to offer.»

We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which most people in our society profess to believe.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).