Sentence examples for conscience of mankind from inspiring English sources

The pledge they signed condemned the "barbarous acts that have outraged the conscience of mankind".

The crimes are usually directed at influencing a world television audience & thus are crimes against the conscience of mankind.

International law, he says, like our ordinary common law, has to be based on the enlightened conscience of mankind.

He insisted on the need for continuous debate because international law was gradually emerging, and as such, reflecting the common conscience of mankind.

(The original U.N. resolution on the subject, approved in 1946, describes genocide as an act that "shocks the conscience of mankind").

Today's legal protections for refugees were largely drawn up in response to the Holocaust, "barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind," as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts it.

When the Israeli Navy contacted the Canadian boat and asked for its destination, Mr. Lotayef first replied, "The conscience of humanity," then, "The betterment of mankind," according to a news release from the activists.

The appeal to the moral conscience of man has never been as necessary as it is today… For the danger comes neither from progress nor from science; if these are used well, they can help to solve a great number of the serious problems besetting mankind (Address to the United Nations Organization, 4 October 1965).

Rand's political conscience (such as it was), her belief that the profound responsibility for the future of mankind weighed on her shoulders, turned the freakish yawp of her tantrum-like vision grimly gray.

Unacknowledged legislators of mankind.

Crutzen published "Geology of Mankind" in 2002.