Famous Quotes & Sayings

It gives very wide powers to civil servants, thanks to deliberately vague phrasing.

It is not very often that rallies of the size we are talking about take place in Washington. This will be a major initiative and will send a very important message to our elected officials and diplomats that the Jewish community and other faith-based organizations and civil rights groups will not sit idly by this time with this genocide. Time is really running out, so it is important to galvanize and to send a strong message.

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Frederick Chiluba

It is important to state that the Zambian Constitution guarantees that the High Court of Zambia has unlimited and original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings under any law and such jurisdiction and powers as has may be conferred by the constitution or any other law.

Todd Akin

It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose.

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.

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.

I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

He can't proceed with the civility the rules require. All lawyers have to conduct themselves with honesty, integrity and civility. This isn't a street fight,

Rabindranath Tagore

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Muhammad Yunus

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Henry David Thoreau

Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw

Ghana embarked on independence as one of the richest tropical countries in the world, with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary and a prosperous middle class.

Elton Gallegly

from a civilized world out to god-forsaken Kern County.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Laura Bush

Judge Pickering has had a fine record on civil rights and should be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Eric Holder

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

I have invited political, religious and civil leaders to discuss confidence-building measures to ensure the situation remains under control.

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

I think it's important we have protest, and civil disobedience is a great American tradition, but we need to do it in a constructive manner, and we need to do it on a non-school day if you're a student.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

Samuel Butler

Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things

Kate Adie

Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.

I don't remember such a long period of peace between India and Pakistan, or a time when the civil societies were so active.