Quotes About Civil

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.

Over the centuries, the Miriams and the Bernies and the millions like them were the fonts of free and civil societies, which was why the likes of D. J. Michael so despised them and yearned to oppress them; freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.

Can a nation surrender its freedom and a civil society to a rabid ideology in just two short years?

At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood. If an civil libertarian had complained about the nativity being on public property, he would have been hunted down like Santa's reindeer during bow season.

Well, from what I have heard of the Scotch Highlanders, there is little to choose between them and the red men for barbarous conduct. Nonsense, said Jamie, sounding not the least offended. The red savages eat the hearts of their enemies, or so I have heard. I prefer a good dish of oatmeal parritch, myself. Bonnet made a noise, hastily stifled. You are a Highlander? Well, I will say that for a barbarian, I have found ye passing civil, sir.

Due process should matter.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

If someone is in the United States without legal status, isn't that person a criminal? Being in the United States without documentation is a civil—not a criminal—offense, so under federal law, individuals living in the United States without proper documentation are not classified as criminals. The punishment may be deportation, but unless the person has committed a crime, he or she is not subject to criminal punishment.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

The federal election statutes are primarily meant to be civil. That doesn't mean that you can't have a criminal violation of the FEC provisions, but that's just my personal opinion.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

Originally, i.e., before Karl Marx, the term "right" meant the supporters of representative government and civil liberties, as opposed to the "left" who favored royal absolutism and the absence of civil rights.

The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in uncharted territory. This happened in the United States once before, of course, in 1860, when the same party, the Democrats, refused to accept the election of Abraham Lincoln. The result was a bloody civil war.

Weede si alzò in piedi per un secondo e piegò leggermente le ginocchia - come faceva sempre mio padre quando le mutande gli si incagliavano in qualche anfratto delle regioni inguinali, spiegando a me bambino che quel gesto era l'unica alternativa civile al disincagliamento manuale, sport preferito di emarginati e pazzi.