Quotes of: Civil-rights-act Keyword

Father Brendan Flynn: You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church! Sister Aloysius Beauvier: I will step outside the church if that's what needs to be ...

Doubt

Dr. Ellie Sattler: But you can't think your way through this, John. You have to feel it. John Hammond: You're right. You're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation. I can see that now. Now, the...

Jurassic Park

Humanity is not only ‘great acts’ spending thousands, putting your name on headlines. Humanity is to be kind to every living being, to be compassionate towards all, even to the tiniest animal, seen and unseen. Some people consider killing ants or...

Ama H.Vanniarachchy

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

Tony Randall

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, ...

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by ...

The Souls of Black Folk

Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

James Lipton

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

The Fault in Our Stars

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure:

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could have been avoided if only Lincoln had known that little trick.

Blanket

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

The Lemon Table