Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

Rick Yancey

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Serj Tankian

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Graeber

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Eli Broad

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

John Boyd Orr

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

Walter Isaacson

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Elie Wiesel

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

Georgina Chapman

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Bill Gates

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Henri Bergson

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus