Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

Michael Moriarty

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Susan Estrich

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.

Sam Harris

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Sam Harris

The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to deny itself as a class in order to permit the bourgeoisification of society as a whole, from the worker to the b...

The Coming Insurrection

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But...

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has...

Judaism and Modern Man - An Interpretation of Jewish Religion

Aaron reached into his jacket pocket and took out his Bible, a gift from his father, Captain Benjamin K. Matthews, on the the day he had ridden off to war. Aaron opened to the Psalms, intending to read, but his eyes were heavy and closed against his ...

Until Shiloh Comes: A Civil War Novel

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing ...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seem...

John Ralston Saul

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

Civil War

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.

Divided & Conquered

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

The Diary of a Young Girl

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Downsiders

The barbeque is the root of all civilization

Future Food: How Cutting Edge Technology & 3D Printing Will Change the Way You Eat

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

The Great Book of Amber

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

The Book of Tea

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage