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Quotes About Civil

All of my guy friends are pretty civil and tame.
~ Thomas Middleditch
For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.
~ Antonio Villaraigosa
Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict.
~ Richard Shenkman
nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for the better. Chenoweth
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
~ Noah Webster
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
~ David Hume
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
~ James Madison
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
~ Richard Mentor Johnson
Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
~ Clarence Thomas
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
~ Lori Lipman Brown
Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.
~ Edward Hirsch
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
~ Daniel Webster
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
~ Dorothy Height
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
~ Angelo Scola
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
~ Zachary Quinto
Vendredi 26 juin 2015, sera toujours dans les mémoires comme une journée très spéciale dans l'histoire americal, car il va continuer à raconter l'un des plus grands succès de l'esprit américain pour les droits civiques et l'égalité. Dieu bénisse l'Amérique!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
~ Francis Bacon
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.
~ Bill Bright
Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.
~ Steven Magee
There came another explosion, and Jonathan flinched, but Mamoud moved not at all, and somehow his calm steadied Jonathan. He had the demeanor of a doctor or a civil servant, in a useful way.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But even if we disagree, perhaps even strongly, it is still possible to hold a civil dialogue where ideas find their way out into the open.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Its about familiarity, and I think the only reason theyre uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they havent come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that its about loveand that it is a civil right.
~ Jennifer Beals
Em tese – disse o senhor Lerond –, um erro judiciário é uma coisa inverossímil. Direi mesmo que é uma coisa impossível, uma vez que a lei oferece garantias aos acusados. Digo-o em favor da justiça civil. Digo-o também a favor da justiça militar. Diante do Conselho de Guerra, o acusado, se não encontra todas as garantias nas formas um pouco sumárias do processo, poderá achá-las no caráter dos juízes.
~ Anatole France
El panadero, su mujer y un mozo cumplían las órdenes de los dos comisarios civiles —cuya autoridad simbolizaba una cinta tricolor en el brazo izquierdo— que investigaban si el consumidor pertenecía a la Sección, y la cantidad de pan que podía corresponderle con arreglo a la familia que tuviera en su casa.
~ Anatole France