The twentieth century was marked by so many advances: scientific, medical, technological, industrial to name but a few but one has to wonder did we progress as humane human beings?
Equity, decency and good law are things all Americans want, though "humane society" and "social progress" are relative terms that can carry substantively different meanings for liberals and conservatives.
Let us note how the archbishops and rabbi stand together to block progress towards more humane laws.
'A moral and humane world with liberty and progress.' MOHAMMAD KHATAMI President, Iran Democratic principles have gradually become the criteria of good-governance domestically.
In a global society whose constituents, much like equal individuals within nation-states, are nations of equal right and dignity, diverse cultures and civilizations can and should work collectively to build a moral and humane world with liberty and progress for all.
Didn't he believe in rational progress towards a more humane world?
But the trauma of the war had created widespread disillusionment about the entire liberal view of progress toward a more humane world.
"The growing concern with human rights is one of the achievements of our age and is certainly a testament to progress toward a more humane international order," Mr. Kissinger writes.
Concluding a biting and tough-minded review of the last several years of American policy in the morass of the former Yugoslavia, Mr. Kissinger concludes: "On one level, the growing concern with human rights is one of the achievements of our age and is certainly a testament to progress toward a more humane international order.
The department remains committed to safe, secure, humane detention conditions — and continues to make progress on that commitment.
And yet his presence there offers one possibility of a small contribution to one part of a solution: arrest him, arraign him for human rights crimes, lock him up in the Netherlands while trial pends, and while he defends his glowing record of humane administration of justice, internal peace, and economic progress, poor struggling Zimbabwe might be able to find its feet again.
