Famous Quotes & Sayings

this legislature's vote could be reversed, and not only could we lose civil marriage equality, we could also backpedal and lose domestic partner benefits.

This is the moment when the leadership of CPN (Maoist) must give clear and public instructions to its cadres to end all abductions of civilians, must release any other civilians still held after being abducted, and must ensure that those instructions are followed.

If you don't do something, then a child's civil rights have been violated and there are legal repercussions.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

In the event there is a problem, the pharmacies would be subject to a remedy imposed by the state. When the pharmacies are contracted, the only remedy is a civil action.

Interestingly enough, I met and had classes from several professors that my father had had many years before when he took civil engineering.

In some ways, we've romanticized the civil rights movement. We often forget just how strong the walls of segregation were, just how close to the surface racial hatred was. This wasn't simply a walk in the park.

In our lawsuit-happy society, focusing on personal responsibility as a way to protect our civil justice system is critical. We look forward to hearing Col. North's perspectives on how this philosophy is relevant given current affairs.

In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

Helen Clark

In particular, I would like to pay tribute to Mr. de Mello. He was one of the finest international civil servants,

In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... I think Nelson Mandela's comments about the importance of Rosa Parks has helped make civil rights sites here international sites of interest.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

Jaron Lanier

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

Jane McGonigal

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

H. G. Wells

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

H. G. Wells

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Jay Weatherill

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Roach

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

Jasper Johns

That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You either have a civil society or you dont.

Karl Marx

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Karl Marx

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Jules Verne

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Julia Child

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

Julia Child

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

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.

H. G. Wells

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Gene Cernan

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Jerry Brown

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.