Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeane Kirkpatrick

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Honore de Balzac

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

He called to thank me for teaching him what I taught him in order to be able to do what he did at the restaurant. It was just incredible. And as an instructor you can't get a better compliment than that, when somebody in the civilian world takes what they learn in a four-hour C.P.R. class and actually uses it to save someone's life.

Jesse Jackson

He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.

John Hurt

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

Edith Wharton

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Bill Bradley

I could never appoint someone to the Supreme Court who I thought would turn back the clock on civil rights, ... overblown.

Erich Fromm

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

Herbert Croly

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

Herbert Read

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Evelyn Waugh

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

J. B. Priestley

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

Irving Howe

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

Irving Babbitt

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Frank Pallone

because everything in India is civilian controlled. They have no history of trying to send nuclear weapons or technology to third parties.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Arlen Specter

But I think that it is important to elevate the public consciousness as to what is going on. The four hearings we have had and the way the matter is drifting, in my view, is insufficient to safeguard civil liberties.

Because the judge holds an important office, he can't engage in civil disobedience.

If there is civil disobedience, and violent civil disobedience, then we are prepared to make arrests and mass arrests if needed.

I remember the (black) civil rights struggle, when we had people like Harry Belafonte coming forth and being at the head and knowing the subject matter really well. We're missing that here.

I have reached the conclusion that the risk of (the death penalty) ... being imposed by a civilian court is negligible,

He?s spoken individually to some of our people and he?s civil in tone. But we?re not part of this process.

Stephanie Cutter

It will be an issue. When it comes down to it, he's on the wrong side of civil rights.

Avi Dichter

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

It's a victory for justice and civil rights. It's a victory for people who have nothing at all except the dream of living in freedom.

It's a well-reasoned decision, and it does minimize privacy and civil liberties implications.

Julian Bond

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

It's a big struggle. Civil society organizations are constantly wasting time responding to irresponsible statements like these.

It's about time we exercised some of our civil rights.

It is so uncommon for senior military officers in the United States to criticize civilian leaders that it has to make an impression on the White House and Congress.

It is right that people should be able to have a civilized drink at whatever time they want,

John Amery

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.