Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

Claire McCaskill

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Esther Dyson

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

Gary Johnson

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

Janine di Giovanni

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James F. Cooper

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer

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