Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mechai Viravaidya

Definitely if the Thai government doesn't need aid, civil society and the people do need it.

George H. W. Bush

Decisions made are made understanding we have an obligation to protect the civil liberties of the American people.

Kofi Annan

deeply distressed by the tragedy taking place in Kosovo and in the region ... The suffering of innocent civilians should not be further prolonged.

The supreme court stirred up trouble with its recent decision supporting a government ordinance cracking down hard on the press, and it is now time for the Nepalese judicial system to put itself at the forefront of the struggle to ensure respect for the constitution and civil liberties.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

Juan Mendez

The situation is unraveling ... and if it comes apart, the danger to civilians will be very great.

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

James Comey

The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.

As long as it's a civil conversation, the communication can last all night as long as it doesn't disrupt a game and we don't have to get into a debate on rules. As long as we have mutual respect, we can have communication.

This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil rights and our right to privacy when it counts the most.

Hu Jintao

This victory saved human civilization and prevented a retrogression of history,

Michael Ward

It would be good to recognize someone who's been instrumental in getting the civil rights movement going in Nashville, ... It's a great way to honor someone who's made a difference.

Brian Sullivan

It would depend on how an indictment is structured and whether a civil remedy is pursued instead of a criminal remedy. It all just depends.

Ron Kind

I understand that some people firmly regard gay marriage as a civil right while others find it antithetical to their religious or moral beliefs.

The way it works is the civil service commission interviewed all the applicants and they had a matrix they used where they scored the applicants from highest to lowest,

The vigilantes operate completely outside the law, and this situation places civilians more deeply in the path of danger.

These arrests, combined with the heightened restrictions on civil and political rights over the past week, highlight the government's continuing disregard for human rights.

Mahdi Bray

These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our precious civil liberties, the things that make this nation great, then indeed the terrorists have won.

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Shashi Tharoor

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

This year's Civil War Weekend will be more educational. The re-enactors are looking forward to interacting with all the people there.

Walden Bello

What we are precisely all about at this point is making sure that a deal doesn't happen, to show the developing country governments there are large numbers of people from civil society representing the interests of people in the developing world and elsewhere that will be very, very dissatisfied, very, very upset if a deal were made.

What ultimately happens is that they become the parents of what we know of as the civil rights movement and ultimately have so much to do with where the Latino community is today and without them in that crossroads it probably wouldn't have happened.

There's no civil rights violation, ... It was a fair trial.

The toll is nine people killed - one civilian driver and eight military personnel - and 36 wounded,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The United Nations must have the possibility to enable all governments, civil society organizations, and NGO's from all over the world to freely travel to its headquarters, without the selective hindrances of the host country and to engage without any fear, in serious dialogue,

Israel can reduce the civilian presence, but maintain military control.

Isn't it ironic that we're going to talk about the Civil War after we've been ambushed this morning?

I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.

Peter Rodman

What the extremists are trying to do is to foment a civil war. But we don't see it. We don't see it succeeding.

We will not let governments off the hook, ... We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

We saw roofs collapsed, we saw holes in the walls, quite extensive damage to the civilian population.