Quotes About Civil

Better sixty years of tyranny than a single day of civil strife.

There should be universal rules about this," she told her reflection. "When a woman is body slammed, she can only take so much without breaking under the pressure." Gathering a full head of steam, she frowned and jabbed her finger in the air. "Life should go easy on you then." That would be humane. Civil. "And if bad things have to happen, there should be warning signs so there's time to brace and prepare for them.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways.

Civil disobedience does not disregard the entire body of law, it challenges only a specific application of the law as unjust with the intention of removing it from body of the law, because the function of the law must be to provide access to justice.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long survive. (A. Lincoln.) But we are not met upon a battlefield of that war. The battlefield for the culture is, of course

The Midnight Dance of the Universal Desk Sergeant, a performance that is somehow the same whether the precinct house is in Boston or Biloxi. Was there ever a desk sergeant who didn't peer out over reading glasses? Was there ever a desk man who wanted to be bothered with police work at three in the morning? Was any station house desk ever manned by anything but aging civil servants, six months from their pensions, whose every movement seemed slower than death itself?

Sure, you can argue one way or the other, and I respect those who think Adani should go ahead. I ask for respect in the other direction.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

The liberty of every American citizen freely to come and to go must frequently, in the face of sudden danger, be temporarily limited or suspended. The civil authorities must often resort to the expedient of excluding citizens temporarily from a locality.

If there were lessons to be learnt from the East Pakistan/ Bangladesh fiasco, Pakistan's civil and military leaders did not learn them. Instead of recognizing the inadequacy of the two nation theory, religious ideology and brute force in keeping the country together, the break-up was rationalized as the result of Indian hostility, malfeasance of Pakistani politicians, and the geographic remoteness of the eastern wing.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

An unenthusiastic chorus responds, "We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

I was just being civil, the waiter retorted sulkily. The

How do we nurture both families and communities, promote a civil discourse, and approach problems with solutions and hope instead of fear and blame?

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

It is no longer a matter," says Churchill, "of the great American democracy taking military action to save us. The time has come for American citizens to take civil action to save themselves.