Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Willie Brown

They were ... quite civil yesterday. And I think it will continue even today, ... And pretty soon, people will get to the point when they'll start talking substantively.

They were the community leaders. They were the leaders of the civil rights struggle.

they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.

It was hard to narrow Civil Rights events to 10,

It is their duty to protect humanitarian operations and civilians in their immediate vicinity,

Graham Spanier

It's a pretty happy civil environment. It's a sing-along, ... I've never been there without the band.

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.

Anthony Romero

For a country that prides itself on due process and civil liberties, it's just indefensible.

Lois Wyse

Survival must come before civilization.

Lytton Strachey

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

John F. Kennedy

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself. But it is a knowledge which today, in America, we are in danger of forgetting.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.

Jonas Mekas

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Jonah Goldberg

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

Paul Levinson

Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

Paul Valery

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

Mary Douglas

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Pope Benedict XVI

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

Pope John Paul II

This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

Pope John Paul II

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

Phillip Adams

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

Primo Levi

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

Pliny the Elder

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Jim Leach

Civility is not simply about manners.

George Mason

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Leo Tolstoy

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.