Quotes About Civil

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

There is a right to protest in our country, but at times the manner in which the protest is done breaks all permissible levels. I don't agree with it at all.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

Toda guerra es abominable; las guerras civiles son, además, perversas. Ya lo habéis visto ahora en Yugoslavia. En España fue también así. Violencia y crueldad hasta la náusea.

What constitutes a civil society? At minimum, it is a place where ideas, of all kinds, can be criticized without the risk of physical violence. If you live in a land where certain things cannot be said about the king, or about an imaginary being, or about certain books, because such utterances carry the penalty of death, torture, or imprisonment, you do not live in a civil society. It

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

It is the civil jury that really saved the liberties of England.

All former confederate governments presided over communities, but that of the Union rules individuals; its force is not borrowed, but self-derived; and it is served by its own civil and military officers, by its own army, and its own courts of justice.

I'm just a civil servant. We take the taxpayer's money and try not to do any work at all.

A simple serpent! . . we used to call ourselves simple serpents. Civil serpents. Servants.

What most business, political and civil leaders have not yet clearly understood is a simple fact: An advanced economy needs an advanced society, for every economy is a product of the society in which it is embedded and is dependent on its key institutions.

Yet he wasn't doing anything threatening at the moment. Instead, he was regarding her with curiosity. "Sarah Vida, I presume?" he inquired, voice civil. "Making sure introductions are out of the way before we fight?" she asked flippantly.

She'd come to find civil administration more interesting than war. It's certainly more complicated.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.