Quotes About Civil

Legislation, whether political or civil, never does more than proclaim, express in words, the will of economic relations.

The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation of single individuals and of civil society [bürgerlichen Gesellschaft].

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

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

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

plutocracy would be a civil organization in which the power resides in wealth, in

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.