Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

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

...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.

Islam at the Crossroads

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

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

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Rise of the Morningstar

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife

Red Seas Under Red Skies

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

Scars: Episode II

[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.

The Sea of Monsters

Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.

Sleeper's Run

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.

Papillon

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Pride and Prejudice

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

Robopocalypse

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Rules of Civility

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

Rules of Civility

The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality. Foreword 'RHG

Right Hand Up to God: No More Will Die

technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic basics persist in spite of the Tofflers, Gingrich and the chorus of corporate voices. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

The Unconscious Civilization

Peradaban Barat di bawahnya berkumpul kebudayaan Barat berlainan dari berbagai bangsa Eropa. Peradaban Islam menyatukan beraneka ragam kebudayaan untuk Islam yang terdiri atas berbagai bangsa Timur.

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization