That it is sacred means that it must not be taken, however humane the motive for taking it may be.
"My motives were not political; they were purely humane, moral motives".
For even as the fiction writer tells humane stories about behavior and motive and family relations — what one might think of as a sympathetic skill — so he or she is also a little like the proverbial choirboy at the funeral: coldly observing, carefully pillaging, rearranging, impersonating, and re-voicing the very material that constitutes "family".
For even as the fiction writer tells humane stories about behavior and motive and family relations what one might think of as a sympathetic skill so he or she is also a little like the proverbial choirboy at the funeral: coldly observing, carefully pillaging, rearranging, impersonating, and re-voicing the very material that constitutes "family".
She still has the Krakow rules when she needs them: "Every motive disguised, every design secret, every human and humane feeling suppressed".
But the profit motive needs to be balanced by human (and humane) considerations if we're to be a livable society - or at the very least a survivable one.
Welcome as the removal of Duvalier is, not only because the west has at last shed one of its most obnoxious third world clients, the motive for it was neither noble nor humane.
The movie's producer is Steven Spielberg, and "Super 8" shares with Spielberg's work an absence of Id: its motives and resolutions are sociable, reasonable, and humane — extending all the way to the (thinly conceived and poorly revealed) monster.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The movie's producer is Steven Spielberg, and "Super 8" shares with Spielberg's work an absence of Id: its motives and resolutions are sociable, reasonable, and humane — extending all the way to the (thinly conceived and poorly revealed) monster.
Proponents of the ban on adoption ascribe ulterior motives to American parents: they adopt Russian kids not because they are humane, but because the American government lavishly compensates them; they want to steal our high-quality "genetic pool"; Americans mistreat or kill their adopted children.
