Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Anthony

The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.

John Sentamu

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

Why should the victim who has never received a dime sit back while the civil rights violator gets his job and back pay?

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Ariel Sharon

We of course have no interest in striking civilians and are always sorry over civilians who were struck,

who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives.

We view the restoration of democracy and civilian rule within a constitutional framework as crucial to fostering long-term stability in Pakistan,

John Galbraith

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

Jacques Chirac

To better help the youth, notably the youth in difficulty, to move toward employment, I've decided to create a voluntary civil service,

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

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.

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.

Dougray Scott

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

Douglas Brinkley

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

Sam Harris

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

Tom Brokaw

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

Sarah Hall

I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

James F. Amos

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.

We are conducting a preliminary inquiry in an effort to determine whether there were any violations of federal civil rights committed at the facility.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Nancy Gibbs

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.

Nancy Gibbs

Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

Mohammed Morsi

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Gore Vidal

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.