Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
Manchester has everything but good looks. . . , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors. . . are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic. . . . The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i. e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.