Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shirin Ebadi

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Mark McKinnon

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

Rami Malek

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Andrew Young

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jill Lepore

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Mercy Otis Warren

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Theodor Reik

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Dick Morris

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Alan Rudolph

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

Life

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

V. S. Naipaul

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Vladimir Putin

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

William Wells Brown

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Wendell Berry

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the Neo-Con-Artists seized the economy and added $4 trillion of unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay four times more for defence, three times more for gasoline and home-heating oil...

Dennis Kucinich

War was so many things, and not the least of which confusion. What was wrong? What was right, for that matter? Was killing right or wrong? Brave or cowardly? Human nature or unnatural behavior of creatures too smart for their own good? Loyalty, betra...

Dragon Claws