Quotes of: Civil-disobedience Keyword

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James F. Cooper

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Ann Coulter

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Tom Allen

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Karin Slaughter

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

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

Nancy Gibbs

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot b...

John Logan

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will rema...

Samuel P. Huntington

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

A Civil Campaign

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The Pillars of the Earth

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Pharsalia: The Civil War

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Naguib Mahfouz

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud