Quotes of: Civil-disobedience Keyword

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

Sherwood Anderson

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Norman Borlaug

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Paul Harris

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Jacob K. Javits

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Will Rogers

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

Adam Levine

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Jeb Bush

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Claudio Hummes

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Arthur Keith

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Elie Ducommun

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

E. M. Forster