Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

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

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Ann Coulter

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Tom Allen

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Karin Slaughter

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

Nancy Gibbs

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot b...

John Logan

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

A Civil Campaign

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The Pillars of the Earth

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Pharsalia: The Civil War

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Jennifer Chiaverini

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Tammy Bruce

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo