Quotes About Civil

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Since Fry had helped to write the catalog he was obliged to be civil: The Times was not. Having dealt with Matisse, the paper said, the art of M. Picasso is a very different matter. He, too, is not a charlatan, but we do not believe that he is an artist of narrow and intense originality like M. Matisse. Rather he seems to us to be by nature extremely imitative, and to have endeavoured to preserve himself from imitation by the pursuit

The popes themselves were the authority behind the Inquisitions. They wielded the power of life and death even over emperors. Had any pope opposed the Inquisition, he could have stopped it during his papacy at least. Where do we read that the popes thundered anathemas against the secular authorities who imposed so many and such gruesome deaths upon their victims? Never! Civil

Read again or hear a great actor speak aloud Lincoln's Gettysburg Address[141] – only this time envision he's talking to you, right now. No squinting. No adjustments or allowances for time or context. Simply talking exactly to and about us, right now. It's shockingly pertinent. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Tis all one; I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids; I will cut off their heads. The heads of the maids? Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maiden- heads, take it in what sense thou wilt. They must take it in sense that feel it. Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.

in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As

It is only in the twentieth century that this hateful conception of inducing nations to surrender by terrorising the helpless civil population by massacring the women and children has gained acceptance and countenance among men.

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Australia is all that and more, and Argentina, after yet another implosion of the civil order, is once again none of it and less.

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

All civil charmsAnd priestly spells which late held hearts in awe—Fear-bound, subjected to a better swayThan sway of self; these like a dream dissolve,And man rebounds whole aeons back in nature.

Call yourself d'Anton,' he advised. 'It makes a better impression.' On whom? Well, not on the real nobility; but so much civil litigation is pressed by the massed ranks of the socially insecure. 'So what if they all know it's spurious?' Maître Vinot said. 'It shows the right kind of urges. Have comprehensible ambitions, dear boy. Keep us comfortable.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

La forma è sostanza e la forma della nostra democrazia e della nostra convivenza civile, di questi tempi, lascia a desiderare. E a questo punto non c'è più niente da ridere. Il «siamo come voi» va rispedito al mittente. Non siamo affatto così e reclamiamo il diritto a rappresentanti migliori.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.

Overlooked in this ominous depiction might be our country's best- kept secret: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every gener- ation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.

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The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. —Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook VP of user growth

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Both my comedy partner, Steve Punt - who grew up in Reigate and is the son of a civil servant - and I come from similarly suburban backgrounds, and its really what fuels our comedy.