Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Ivins

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

Milton Friedman

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Katherine Mansfield

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

Julia Ward Howe

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julian Assange

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

Eleanor Smeal

Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, and we'll save the Supreme Court.' Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

Cyprus conveyed its support to India's efforts for the promotion of full civilian nuclear energy cooperation.

The new Tammany was wrapped in a cloth of sanctimony. It professed to represent the interests of the poor. Protected in part by civil service and union power, it was immune to elections, and rather than being subject to scrutiny by the press it was mostly treated as a sacred cow.

William Empson

The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.

William Empson

The "News," the conferences that leer, the creeping fog, the civil traps. These are what force you into fear.

The African-American community was able to unite itself during the civil rights movement, and look at all the progress they made. As a Latino community, we need to follow that same path of unity and organization. If we don't show our strength in numbers, we will continue to be treated the same.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Edward Kennedy

supported a cramped and narrow view that would exempt many formally covered institutions from following civil rights laws that protect women, minorities, and the disabled.

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Anthony Bourdain

It's not as much an expose as it is a memoir, with some things that seem to have shocked and horrified some of the civilian population,

Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous.

James G. Stavridis

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.

There was no standard reference when the new era of a civilized mankind began. The founding fathers had been forced to start a new world order and as time passed by, many references appear.

There was never a situation where the formal political map was in such disharmony from Israeli civil society.

There will be a lot of police officers that will think this is another word for civilian review board.

I want to major in some kind of engineering and get a civilian job in the Defense Department.

Avi Dichter

It will be only a civilian disengagement, not a military disengagement.

They committed no crime in holding this meeting ... the Cuban government is violating civil rights here.

Marion Barry

I've gone through the Civil Rights Movement. I've seen courts and mayors and white people do things, you turn your back and they undo it. And we don't need that ... so I speak a little different about it. I've experienced this kind of double-dealing, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

No man, not even Slobodan Milosevic, is worth a civil conflict and bloodshed.

It was a combination of information garnered from the criminal investigation from day one and information that they were able to pull from the civil transcripts.

It was a civil dispute and it was resolved amicably between parties.

Kate Michelman

It's very disturbing and should worry, I think, Pennsylvania women and civil rights advocates and people concerned about unchecked executive power to wiretap and eavesdrop on Americans.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

It wasn't his fault. The whole thing was a mistake and the company (Trash Man) has taken responsibility and paid a civil fine.

It's good that we've grown from the fight for civil rights to an expectation of civil rights for every human being here.

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.