#civil

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civil




The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?


Imran Khan


#children #civilised #did #doing #eliminate

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.


Richard Foreman


#expression #feeling #play #twilight #ultimate

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.


Rabindranath Tagore


#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.


Daniel Quinn


#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.


Frank Knox


#civilization #finer #heart #i #i believe

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.


Henry Knox


#civil war #done #failure #horror #involved

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.


Ronald Knox


#civilisation #devil #explanation #given #modern

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.


Dean Koontz


#do the right thing #fact #most #people #rests

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.


Karl Kraus


#behind #civilization #culture #disappear #existence

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.


Hideki Tojo


#agree #civilization #justice #moral #must