Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Mo Ibrahim

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its own interests, and the American people are safer.

It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

Charles Schumer

judicial philosophy and his commitment to civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights.

Maybe in February, you might talk about it for a while. There's slavery and the Civil War, then nothing for (100 years). Then there's Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and that's it like they were the only two who ever did anything. It gets glossed over.

Michael Chertoff

managers and supervisors found responsible for violating civil rights or whistleblower protection laws will be disciplined accordingly.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Let me just say that the prospect that you could have civil nuclear energy in India is one that is welcomed not just by the US but by other countries of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Maoists have also forced civil servants to resign and restricted movement of people.

Michael Ward

When you're in the prosecuting attorney's office you're kind of a specialist. The civil responsibilities were one of the greatest learning curves I had to take on when I got into office.

Husain Haqqani

willing to share power with the civilians in any meaningful way?

Rebecca MacKinnon

While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

Jeremy Corbyn

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

Ibrahim Hooper

It creates the impression that you have a two-tiered system of justice, where most Americans have full constitutional rights, and then you have a set of diminished civil liberties for American Muslims.

Thomas Sullivan

That would unsettle every case, civil and criminal.

Alfred North Whitehead

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

Alfred North Whitehead

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Aldous Huxley

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Aldous Huxley

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Aldous Huxley

Civilization is sterilization.

Aldous Huxley

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

Don Marquis

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Dinesh D'Souza

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

E. M. Forster

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Douglas Rushkoff

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Douglas Adams

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

Douglas Adams

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Douglas Adams

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?