C Quotes
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“Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.”
Source: A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia
“Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.”
“Civil Sanity
(Sonnet 1631)
You know what the problem is!
We question love
more than we question hate.
We question humility
more than we question arrogance.
We question benevolence
more than we question biases.
We question integrity
more than we question deceit.
We question curiosity
more than we question prejudice.
We question character
more than we question cowardice.
Problem is, we question humanity
more than we question inhumanity.
Grow out of such prehistoric normalcy,
and the world will encounter civil sanity.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
Source: Collected Works
“Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.”
“Civil servants take forever to do anything.”
“Civil service is the main engine of democracy, we just gotta make it corruption-proof and efficient.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.”
“Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.”
Source: Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals
“Civil society is, indeed, composed of individuals, acting freely.... But freedom entails responsibility, founded in the sentiments of sympathy that make us strive to look on our own and others' conduct from the standpoint of the impartial judge. The institutions of law and government exist in order to assign responsibilities and to ensure that they are not evaded or abused. Of course, this is something that liberals [(i.e. classical liberal)] too will acknowledge. But the difference of emphasis is crucial to the conservative position. Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.”
Source: Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
“Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.”
“Civil society people - these are the people - civil society groups are the people who need to monitor the aid to ensure that the aid is directed to what it is supposed to. And in order for them to do so, they need to have the space, they need to have the freedom, and they need to have the right to demonstrate, and to petition their government. They can't do that in Ethiopia; they can't do that in Eritrea; and so this is why I was cautioning that we may be repeating some of our old mistakes.”
“Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.”
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
“Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.”
“Civil unrest, civil turmoil is not a challenge to President Trump. It's a resource for him. He needs to create an image of a polarized country in which the people who are against him are somehow alien or anti-system.”
“Civil War armies were the most literate in history to that time. More than 90 percent of white Union soldiers and more than 80 percent of Confederate soldiers were literate, and most of them wrote frequent letters to families and friends... I am convinced that [their letters and diaries] bring us closer to the real thoughts and emotions of those men than any other kind of surviving evidence.”
Source: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
“Civil war in man between reason and passions.
If there were only reason without passions.
If there were only passions without reason.
But since he has both he cannot be free from war, for he can only be at peace with the one if he is at war with the other.”
Source: Pensées
“Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.”
“Civil War was recorded by the original line-up”
“Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a war be condemned? War is not shameful, nor the sword-thrust a stab in the back, except when it serves to kill right and progress, reason, civilization, and truth. When this is war's purpose it maeks no difference whether it is civil or foreign war - it is a crime. Outside the sacred cause for justice, what grounds has one kind of war for denigrating another? By what right does the sword of Washington despise the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Which is the greater - Leonidas fighting the foreign enemy or Timoleon slaying the tyrant who was his brother? One was a defender, the other a liberator. Are we to condemn every resort to arms that takes place within the citadel, without concerning ourselves with its aim?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
“Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“Civil wars are the physical manifestation of the irreconcilable differences between two or more differing visions of what a future state can become.”
“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”
“Civil wars, just like the reign of terror, are but the accelerated domestication of a people by the covert powers. - On Domestication”
“Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.”
“Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Civilians are no more fit to have guns at their disposal than politicians are to have nukes at their disposal.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Civilians carrying personal firearm, are but rabid dogs without a leash.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Civilians had no idea how much nonsense you had to listen to when you were a cop. The public loved to salute police officers for their bravery, but no one ever gave credit for the day-in, day-out fortitude required to put up with the bullshit. While courage was an excellent feature in a police officer, a built-in resistance to gibberish was, in Lila's opinion, just as important.”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Civilians have a right to firearms no more than they have a right to Uranium-235.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.”
Source: Without Remorse
“Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.”
“Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.”
“Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race”
“Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.”
“Civilisation is a conspiracy.”
Source: The Leithen Stories
“Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion.”
Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
“Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.”
“CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.”
“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough”
“Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.”
Source: Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins
“Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.”
Source: JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more
“Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.”
“Civilisation required a contribution – or a sacrifice, if that’s what you wanted to call it.”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.”
Source: Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century