Sentences with phrase «what is civilized»

This produces a slight mistrust between the narrator and the reader and limits the book's ability to explore the nature of humanity (what is inherent, what is learned, what is civilized, what is savage) to its fullest extent.

Outwardly, we face the collapse of the social order over a large part of what was the civilized world — a collapse which involves all of us more or less.

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What the president told Republicans, in other words, largely echoed the report's findings — and it makes perfect sense he would do so: killing the hype on both sides of the Keystone debate is the first step toward turning the conversation into a civilized exchange that can lead to compromise.

«Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society» (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

Personally, I think they're just as crazy to die as the not - so - smart bombs — but at the same time I know they rely on the fact most Americans are too civilized to do what we all would * like * to.

What a shame, claiming to be very civilized and then using street thug ism and then outright terrorism.

This is what we do in a civilized world kid.

Religion is a personal choice and should be treated as such in what I thought was the civilized and «modern» world.

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!

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.

Morally, man is evil, and becoming more so as he grows more civilized: what grounds have we for hoping that he will improve?

He appointed himself to know what is best for Africans just because he was white, «civilized» and Christian.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

In the late tenth century, we are told, the grand prince Vladimir from what is today the Ukraine was planning to introduce his people into the civilized world.

Yet, in the less spectacular cases that take place under more normal circumstances, the equivalent selfishness, acting in one's own interest, no matter what damage is done in the process to the other, is considered somehow acceptable in our so very «civilized» culture.

If some very intelligent civilized beings from somewhere else were to come here can you imagine what they must think.

Most civilized folks are interested in finding out what THIS current life has to offer and probably share the feeling that once it's done, you don't get another ride like, so WHY take a chance (i know... you'll have your «faith» rebuttal) and rush in the inevitable, especially if you're having a good time in life?

Yet well - harnessed emotions are what nurtures humanity to be more civilized.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

The pertinent question then becomes: To what extent is a civilized society a real instance of this more technical class of derivative existent?

As a preliminary point it is worth noting that neither a civilized society nor a Society per se is to be classified as an instance of what Whitehead calls an «actual entity» or primary existent.

A civilized society as one is actually many, and as many it is potentially one, or what amounts to the same thing, a civilized society is really many and ideally one.

But in what way is a civilized society a special case of Society?

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.

What really makes people show disrespectful and not used to civilized / scholarly discussion is when they go into news forums talking about the catholic faith, christianity, judaism etc. and start insulting with a very proud and selfish tone, and in obvious bad faith.

But there is a difference between civilized censorship and spineless pandering to ideological terrorists, which is what the more aggressive homosexual activists have become.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

For after the shock of discovering just how completely the entire civilized world had averted its gaze from what was happening to their fellow Jews in Europe, they would find not only that they were now being welcomed to hitherto restricted precincts but that all the traditional expressions of hostility to Jews had been banished from polite, and even largely from impolite, society.

@netwallwarrior — at what point in our history was this society anymore moral or civilized than it is today?

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).

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.

Perhaps the marked individuality that characterizes civilized man is just what must be overcome.

I call people who seek revenge, other than what is allowed under a civilized society's laws (as in, laws not based on religious «laws» that might allow an eye - for - an - eye mentality), for having their property destroyed stupid and primitive.

What a shame billions of dollars and thousands of lives have been lost and we call ourselves civilized.

Your ill - hidden premise seems to be that people must be entrapped into hearing what you have to say, lured in with necessities like food and shelter and then «civilized» with christian teachings.

Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

Then what sets us apart as the civilized, free society we claim to be?

For lunch today I decided to take the civilized route and attempt what was supposed to happen for dinner: a spin on the asian sub.

«But because of more stringent laws at a time when society was different, courts overcharged people and maximized their sentences beyond what is considered reasonable by a civilized society.»

What readily comes to mind at the mention of ROPAA or diaspora voting is enfranchising Ghanaian citizens in United Kingdom, the United States of America and other civilized nations in Europe, not African countries like Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Gambia etc..

«What has been the fate of so many human beings, so long cut off from all intercourse with the more civilized world?»

The practice of pretending to know what you're talking about is generally frowned upon in civilized society.

This classic shows what happens before and after tribes were «civilized.»

It's a complicated topic that needs to be discussed and thoughtfully agreed on what makes up a civilized society.

A zebra, cheetah or panda may wear its dots and stripes for camouflage in the wilderness, and is that not what we do in our civilized dots?

The interracial dating in the civilized community really isn't what it used to be.

Warping her way over from Valve's Portal franchise, GLaDOS is extremely curious about what the player and his more civilized artificially intelligent computer are doing with all of these towers, and when the all - powerful machine scientist gets curious, it's time for some tests.

Parents don't think about education this way, but they have less and less say over what happens in the rearing of their children to become what they hope will be civilized human beings.

What really made the Bora different from the other mid-engine cars, though, was that it was civilized and usable.

It also updates its interior with modern features to provide a more civilized driving experience similar to what's available in other Jeep vehicles.