Sentence examples for ideals of humanity from inspiring English sources

Writing about the new anti-gay laws that have now been passed in both Uganda and Nigeria, the ILGA said: "These developments go against the ideals of humanity and human rights.

Von Trier's comments, the directors decided, were "unacceptable, intolerable and contrary to [Cannes'] ideals of humanity and generosity".

"Liberalism and western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity," said the letter, obtained by The Associated Press.

Our trans-Atlantic alliance frustrated the plans of dictators, served the highest ideals of humanity, and set a violent century on a new and better course.

And then comes a threatening prophecy: "Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity.

"We profoundly regret[s] that this forum has been used by Lars von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable, intolerable, and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the festival".

Children should be educated, not with reference to the present conditions of things, but rather with regard to a possibly improved state of the human race that is, according to the ideal of humanity and its entire destiny.

The dramatic conflicts are oriented to the conflicts of the three religions involved Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and coalesce in the love of a Knight Templar for the daughter of Nathan, the wise Jew who embodies the ideal of humanity.

Through it all, he was, puzzlingly but certainly, great: a great man of a special mid-century kind — great in form, in fable, in the entire fiction he made of his life, dedicated to an extravagantly complicated ideal of humanity.

This is a large part of the force of his ideal of "humanity".

This double position of Schleiermacher's might seem to court the following sort of problem: What if the moral values of a society or an individual conflict with the ideal of humanity?