Top 1200 Civil Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.