Quotes About Civil

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.

dangerously polite.

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.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

I'm glad that civil liberties continue to have some standing in this country.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide.

The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

one who breaks an unjust law, must do it openly and lovingly

A common civil code will help the cause of national integration by removing disparate loyalties to laws which have conflicting ideologies.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

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

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.