Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert Humphrey

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Arthur Koestler

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Edward Abbey

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Dirk Benedict

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Hoshyar Zebari

to protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.

David Bowie

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Aharon Appelfeld

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

Sarah Hall

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

She was very proud of the Civil Service Commission work,

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Rand Paul

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Charles Hodge

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Orison Swett Marden

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Rudy Giuliani

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

Gregory Maguire

I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

Greg Boyle

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Alfred Nobel

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Alexander Pushkin

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

Allen Ginsberg

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.