#civil

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#better #civil #civil society #direction #energy

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claims #every #every man #gives #himself

A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#civil servant #jokes #make #servant

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #humor

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#civilization

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. ↗

— Todd Akin

#activity #attempts #civil #civil right #government

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#brigades #british #civilian #forces #had