#civil

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

A war between Europeans is a civil war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civil #civil war #europeans #war

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ↗

— Victor Hugo

#between #brothers #civil #civil war #does

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#crime #peace #virtue #war

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. ↗

— John Hume

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #movement

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#civil #express #faith #form #itself

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#civil rights #i #issue #late #rights