Quotes of: Civil-rights-act Keyword

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.

Steven M. Cahn

...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ...

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch ...

Letters of C. S. Lewis

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

How Civilizations Die

Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Esther Dyson

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James F. Cooper

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine