All Quotes

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
‐‐ Andrew Young

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
‐‐ Mary Frances Berry

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.
‐‐ Gus O'Donnell

Civil servants take forever to do anything.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
‐‐ Herodotus

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
‐‐ James McGreevey

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
‐‐ Alfred Russel Wallace

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
‐‐ Jim Leach

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss

Civility is not simply about manners.
‐‐ Jim Leach

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
‐‐ Jay Weatherill

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
‐‐ Norman Borlaug

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

Civilization can never be sustainable.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
‐‐ Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
‐‐ Nina Fedoroff

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
‐‐ Thor Heyerdahl

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
‐‐ James Lovelock

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
‐‐ John Buchan

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
‐‐ Jane Addams

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
‐‐ Max Nordau

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
‐‐ Carrie Snow

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
‐‐ Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
‐‐ Ayn Rand