Quotes About Civil

From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.

Long live democracy!

I defend non-criminal detention.

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

Discourse, it's good for the soul.... civil... or otherwise, which.... do YOU prefer??

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

When social spaces begin to be created outside the direct control of the state (including commercial ones, run for profit), civil society can start to flourish in unexpected ways. Learning just to sip alongside a stranger makes for a potable kind of pluralism.

America, . . . a place of free expression of everything with everyone, which is made possible through the civil courage characteristic of the American and through the lack of all inhibiting officiousness in personal conversation" (Bonhoeffer, cf. report from 1931).

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of learning in the twelfth century, it became the basis of civil law on the European continent. Freedom of property and the rule of law were the hallmarks of this tradition, and the protection of property from arbitrary confiscation by government was a pivotal freedom.