Quotes of: Civil-rights-act Keyword

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not jus...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwin...

Rose Under Fire

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your...

Octave Mirbeau

My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every gr...

Leonard Darwin

All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which th...

Max I. Dimont

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with...

Jim Al-Khalili

[first lines] Teacher: Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths....

Serenity

Being true to yourself it always the right thing to do.

Phoenix Fallen

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.

Tegan Quin

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

Lech Walesa

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

David Heyman

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Daryl Hannah

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

Eric Ries

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Pete Seeger

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.

Life

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

Mike Quigley

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Terrell Owens