Quotes of: Civil-disobedience Keyword

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bianca Jagger

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Grace Paley

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Henry Charles Carey

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Havelock Ellis

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Jose Rizal

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

Dione Lucas

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

John Fowles

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Leland Stanford

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.

Lytton Strachey

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Alice Walker

Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Munich

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Najib Razak

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Sonia Sotomayor