Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

John Lydon

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

John Milius

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountif...

The Garden of The Prophet

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't se...

Joe Biden

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Walden and Civil Disobedience

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Richard Foreman

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Terence McKenna

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

L. Neil Smith

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ida B. Wells

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Flora Lewis

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Bitsie Tulloch

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Jesse Ventura

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing