Quotes of: Civilized-society Keyword

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all s...

QB VII

home is the isolation within the society from the society

lity munshi

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Ralph Nader

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

It is becoming fashionable to scorn the idea of sin in society. The impact of humanistic thinking is to belittle the concept that man is corrupt. Psychologists and psychiatrists would persuade us that people really are not responsible for their wrong...

Salt For Society

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

Engleby

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any cas...

John Sentamu

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.

Islam and Secularism

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

Major Owens

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

Octavia Spencer

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Patricia Hewitt

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

Raymond Burr

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

Slobodan Milosevic

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Thomas Jefferson

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

Tim Kaine