Sentence examples for law of humanity from inspiring English sources

But the injustices it describes must stand alongside the history of injustices I kept discoveringof law, of humanity, of life: injustices that dwarfed this little man's original complaints.

Burke's impulses and instincts are strikingly universalist: "There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the Law of Nature and of Nations".

Thus he expresses his commitment to moral distinctiveness or individuality in such formulas as that a person should be an individual "without violating the laws of humanity," that "each human being should represent humanity in his own way," and that what is valuable is a person's "distinctive being and its relation to humanity".

Slavery (or servitude – the category is wider or more diverse than often acknowledged) does not extinguish the laws of humanity or erase all traces of humans' original equality, even though it is possible for them to bargain away (permanently) their freedom to command themselves.

"The loss of innocent life is against the laws of humanity".

"The Filipinos who began this case were pioneers in establishing principles of civil responsibility for massive violations of the laws of humanity," said Diane F. Orentlicher, an expert on international law who is deputy for war crimes issues at the State Department.

In 1961 the General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the use of nuclear or thermonuclear weapons to be contrary to international law, to the UN Charter, and to the laws of humanity.

Following the horrors of the First World War, a British lawyer named Hugh Bellot spent years beseeching the League of Nations to establish an international criminal court at The Hague, to prosecute war crimes and "all offenses committed contrary to the laws of humanity".

After I'd arrived for my baby inspection, one of the first items that caught my eye on the bulletin board in Abigail's kitchen was a Times clipping I had sent her and Brian, who also practices law of the humanity-helping rather than the disgustingly lucrative sort, about young professionals who had left the Bay Area in the wake of the dot-com collapse.

"I think there is a lot of humanity in the law".

The state is felt to be the apotheosis of political and natural law, and it strives to extend that law over all of humanity.