Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Luen Yang

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

Emmeline Pankhurst

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.

Jason Stearns

There are many weapons that have been distributed to civilians and there are factions who don't want to lose power and who'd do anything including inciting ethnic violence to stop the electoral process. The only way to ensure stability during the elections is to actually have troops on the ground.

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Yet at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Bitsie Tulloch

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

Abel Ferrara

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

The government's crackdown on civil society is unprecedented, even in Uzbekistan's 14-year history of repression since independence from the Soviet Union.

The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.

Antony Beevor

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

Brendan Sexton III

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

Geraldine Brooks

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.

express those emotions with violence, they must not express them with civil disorder, or any fashion that infringes on the rights of others.

Mike Brady

Factors such as these impact the availability of evidence necessary to prove that an offense occurred when taken to military or civilian courts.

Alex Berenson

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

Peter Abrahams

Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

John C. Calhoun

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Cindy Sheehan

We've identified the problem and it's not going away. What I think it's going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country,

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

Bruce Gordon

While it comes as no surprise that the nominee's views are different than ours, it is the seemingly extreme nature of those views, the degree of difference, that makes his candidacy unacceptable. Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 years.

Ariel Sharon

We of course have no interest in striking civilians and are always sorry over civilians who were struck,

who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives.

We view the restoration of democracy and civilian rule within a constitutional framework as crucial to fostering long-term stability in Pakistan,

We consider ourselves to be the Civil War re-creationists of music. We're paying tribute to the song and the artist, but we serve the song. At first, we were sort of like a secret club but now it's not so secret anymore.

There is a lot of momentum toward limiting civil RICO at the court.

The open mind is key to true understanding.

There is nothing progressive about turning nature and God's sacred design for marriage on its head in the name of civil rights,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Why should the victim who has never received a dime sit back while the civil rights violator gets his job and back pay?