#civil

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civil




Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.


Seth Lloyd


#being #certainly #civilization #course #history

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.


Konrad Lorenz


#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.


Henry James Sumner Maine


#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.


Michelle Malkin


#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.


Judith Martin


#born #charming #civilized #fit #fresh

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.


Paul Martin


#bill #canada #civil #equals #i

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.


Harriet Martineau


#condition #half #none #other #over

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.


Karl Marx


#always #been #civilization #comparison #completely

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.


Tom McClintock


#free #hold #prisoners #societies

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.


James McGreevey


#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties