Sentences with phrase «what society wanted»

I had listened to what society wanted from me for too long.

Science and faith are not mutually exclusive, regardless of what society wants us to believe.

You know, they are refusing to be compartmentalized which is what society wants them to do.

The President of African Heights Foundation, Dennis Armah, says the platform will serve as a medium for the youth to speak up and inform the political class «what society we want to live in and hold them accountable when they deviate from that social contract».

Everyone should wear what he wants and not what society wants him to wear.

Individualism has also risen among millennials, which makes people more oriented towards what they want instead of what the society wants from them.

Not exact matches

They want to know more about what it means for the future of our society,» eToro UK MD Iqbal Gandham said in an email.

Property rights are important, and our society is predicated on the basic assumption that each of us has the right to control the stuff we own, to do what we want with it and to invite onto our property those we want to invite and to exclude those we want to exclude.

«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.»

And what you will want to do with the bulk of your wealth is give it back to society.

And that law like all the other hateful, disgusting throwbacks to our barbaric theistic society will soon be done away with, regardless of what the «majority» wants, because to do otherwise would be to spit in the faces of the founders and symbolicly burn the constltution.

That is exactly what the Mullah's and Taliban are all about, we do not want a society ruled by what some mythical god wants, it is destructive.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

he is there to forgive if people repent, but he is also is a just God and will punish sin no matter what secular society wants to teach

We've had blue laws imposing Christian beliefs on businesses, Prohibition, laws criminalizing sodomy, laws banning birth control, abortions, gay marriages, interracial marriages and more simply because arrogant Christians thought they needed to impose their «personal knowledge» of what God wants on our entire society.

If you are not experiencing opposition in this life as a Christian than you need to take another look at the truth that the Bible and Christ taught... Jesus was a revolutionary figure who opposed the society and people that he lived with... He was not a person who was sugary sweet... and He didn't tell people what they wanted to hear... as Scripture says, the path to heaven is narrow and Few choose it... the road to hell is wide and most are following that path.

Even crucifixion has nothing on what some societies in our not so distant past dished out as capital punishment.I don't wish to depict those methods here because if you desire you can look them up for yourself and be sick as a dog if you want.

Some people, who don't understand what a human society means, and simply want one that is efficient and scientific, see it the other way round.

Society has many margins that provide great vantage points from which to view it, and comedians are genuinely looking for the truth of who people are, what they want, how they behave and why — and looking to pull back masks and reveal truth.

I think true devotion is when you live in the sinful society and preach and tell people who is God what does he wants from us.

Our modern society, however, would like us to believe, as Eve did, that God is withholding good from us, that our needs are not met, that we can and should have what we want, and have it now.

It is the onus of those who want to legalize the drug to show what value it will bring to society, and so far, I have yet to see a good reason to legalize marijuana to the general public.

If you want to see what is so wrong with society in America read his post and recognize what unfounded prejudice is about.

What we want is the nonword, the unword, the silence, the touch, the dance, the music — in short, a new word and a new language that the mystic who rejects society's language eventually comes to utter.

Okay, what if someone who heads up a skeptics society, or the president of an atheist organization said that they wanted to try theism?

It's what I said before in my initial post, you did it, possibly, for the altruistic reason of wanting to live in a good society by making society a little bit better.

Money is the measure of success, for the meaning of success in such a society is having the power to command what one wants.

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacred.

People move away from God because they want to decide what is right and wrong, as if they were God or the end all wise authority of what society should do.

The youthful occupiers of Wall Street may think that they want to repair what's broken in our society, but few of them understand what needs fixing.

The fact remains, however, that if society doesn't want to be compassionate they can (under your view) do what they please.

The difference is whether we make society decisions based on what kind of future we want, or based on what our invisible hallucinations want.

I happened to be teaching at the University of California at the height of the youth revolt against what they believed was a society that wanted to turn them into cogs in a machine.

We want to look at what is good for individuals and society, and being with someone you can love is good for individuals, while those people's happiness and stability is good for society.

What is remarkable is the human capacity — in spite of this intensive societal indoctrination — to perceive where justice demands change, to discover that one's society or one's peers are morally wanting.

«Christians in Wenzhou [are] wondering what lessons God wants them to take from this campaign,» said Fenggang Yang, director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University.

It does not reflect prevailing patterns of human behavior... If you look around carefully, you will see that most people are not really maximizers, but instead what you might call «satisfiers»: they want to satisfy their needs, and that means being in equilibrium with oneself, with other people, with society and with nature.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

Is this what society and church want or need?

It may have such an impact — the researchers disagree — but that is irrelevant to the real and original question: What sort of society do we want to be?

If you're making a short film, and you want to illustrate a society that's falling into tyranny, you can just cut away to a scene of a pile of books burning, and everyone will know exactly what you meant.

What is tragically wrong with our society is that many people want to justify those who slander homosexuals, abortionists and even our nation's leader by drawing on the Word.

This was my church experience, no matter what church I attended I was always counted on and called to do the work no one else wanted, because they new I wasn't afraid to «get my hands dirty» by ministry to those marginalized, disenfranchised, and stigmatized by the church and society.

There were those peoples who took from what he taught and added it to how they wanted to act, and created laws for their society.

its so amazing there people is this world are so caught up in living for themselves, what if the rapture happened while reading my text, what then, will you stil care what clothes you are wearing or what what car you are driving,, while GOD is removed from this earth, and now society will have to make a real decision if they want to contine to live in sin or realize they now understand the truth and the warnings given before, but now bc of the anti christ have to denounce GOD (take the mark of the beast) or be killed, and if you do nt believe in christ now, will you be willing to die for christ then, i would rather be ridiculed by the world for being a true christian then be gay, seperated from GOD, and then cast in the lake of fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRE?

And I feel it is the responsibility of us gay people not to want to have «marriage» because we feel we need this to be equal but to really imagine how a gay relationship can become a blessing not only to the partners but also to the greater society and define it as something new and leave marriage as what it is — a holy union between a man and a woman.

What I want and argue for is a society where religion is a private matter of no concern to the state.

I'm not sure this is a given, «since taxation is necessary unless you want anarchy...» And I don't think this is either, «what is the role of government in society to for the highest well - being of the greatest number» You have preconceptions even in your questions, but we all do.

However, I think it's valid to ask «What kind of society do we want?»

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.