Quotes of: Western-civilization Keyword

The undoubtedly lives in belief in God. recognises Christianity as the builder of Western culture. { }

Michael von Faulhaber

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Kanaly

Schoolmaster: [to his students] You are the life of the Fatherland! You are the iron men of Germany!

All Quiet on the Western Front

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

Shereen El Feki

What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes," he said. "Speaking with hands is civilization." "But smiling is natural," I protested. "Everyone smiles." ...

The Wise Man's Fear

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

Scott Turow

Civility awareness and a common foundation of considerate conduct are crutial to our future,

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

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Kinky Friedman

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere.

Marian Wright Edelman

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

Kenneth Chenault

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

Henry Rollins

Detective Dunnigan: You're gonna do that? Here? What about his civil rights? Nick Rice: *Fuck* his civil rights.

Law Abiding Citizen

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

Dorothy Height

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

Yaya DaCosta

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

John Ruskin

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Sonia Johnson

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the years following Brown v. Board of E...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Here are the facts. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in Western civilization. In the United States alone, more than half a million people die of it every single year. Three times that number suffer known heart attacks. A...

Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

Damn, you’re soft. I have trouble keeping my hands off you.”

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture