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In the name of History, Che, too, saw murder as a necessary tool of a noble cause.
In fact, free-market behavior, whatever its benefits, is not hard-wired into human brains, especially not when it seems allied with selfishness and corruption in undermining noble ideals like cooperation, fairness, and equality.
Of course, love of research and teaching is why many people join university faculties in the first place, but why not give these noble sentiments a helping hand with appropriate financial incentives?
All of these were great and noble qualities, and all of them now seem utterly superfluous to most Poles.
Bellicisme – the notion that war is noble, and can be purifying and cleansing – is dead beyond redemption.
Rebuilding Venezuelan DemocracySANTIAGO – Excitement, anxious young faces, the sense of a nation’s best and brightest coming together for a noble cause: the scene was an office building in Caracas, Venezuela, in July 2012.
Of course, the UN often falls short of its noble aspirations, since it reflects the realities of world politics, even while seeking to transcend them.
The way to square this apparent circle is by noting that we love our motherland not because of a misplaced sense of ethnic or racial superiority, but because it stands for noble and universal values.
And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble invention of a “people” and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a break from tearing each other limb from limb.
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the peasants down and widen the surplus – for, after all, they cannot make more land.
In his inauguration speech, American President Barack Obama said, “The time has come to set aside childish things” and instead to choose the noble idea that “all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”
Above all, journalism is not regarded as a noble profession, because too many young Africans, for too long, saw the journalist as a mere propagandist.
It is a noble hope, but also a dangerous one, for dreams can easily turn into nightmares.
And, certainly for Monnet and the other founders of postwar Europe, it was an entirely benign, even noble, ideal.
Europe, once identified as "the West" as a whole, once held a noble vision of its mission: to deliver the fruits of the Enlightenment and the practice of democracy to the world.
If we are still making any progress at all, it is because of the noble efforts of a small number of United States senators.
You are an heiress to a noble heritage, and thus not only better than the mass of immigrants, but also part of something larger and more compelling than is implied by the cog status that a multiracial, secular society offers you.
His aim for the Olympic Games was to embody a noble ideal of world peace and brotherhood through athletic competition.
The hope of breaking Nazi power while preserving Germany from the destiny of utter destruction and bloodshed that awaited it in the last months of the war was a noble one, even if in the end it proved to be unrealistic.
If Pius sinned with this hope, his was a noble sin.
They are grand, noble, and ambitious goals, but fully attainable for today’s Chile, the Bicentennial Chile, a Chile now viewing the twenty-first century with more optimism and enthusiasm than ever before.
It would be a true disaster for the world if America, in an act of self-destructive decadence, tossed this noble, practical, and inspiring creation into the dustbin of history.
Through those retellings, her self-immolation (jauhar) became a noble act of resistance against the lustful Muslim, making her an exemplar of unsullied Hindu womanhood.
Healing one of Christianity’s oldest divisions is a noble goal.
It should reflect the European commitment to the noble heritage of the French Revolution, as reflected in, say, the French constitution, but it should reflect in equal measure the symbolism of those constitutions that include an invocatio dei .
Of course, it is noble to hesitate before declaring someone an enemy, but when someone talks and acts like an enemy, doubts must disappear.
True, such political infighting makes the EU appear as if it is no longer motivated by great and noble ambitions.
The Fed’s goal of pushing the unemployment rate down to 6.5% is a noble one.
The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, represented a noble and ambitious departure in European history.
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