Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

The Caves of Steel

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.

Cosmopolis

Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers

Crazy Little Things

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Education of a Wandering Man

I'm good. And it's good to see you've kept up the tradition of getting the holy shit beat out of you,even when you're in a nice, civilized place.

Fall of Night

If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

A brick could be used to start a civil war. And then that same brick could be used to start building the country up again after everything is destroyed.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is b...

John Conyers

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for ...

David Cameron

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character...

David Oyelowo

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated ...

Henry Louis Gates

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and repr...

Daisaku Ikeda

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

Angle of Repose

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization