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I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.
— Lionel Esher
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
— Richard Branson
It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.
— Olivia De Havilland
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
Yes, let's build a wall, but let's do it to help African-Americans! It's alt-right meets Civil Rights! The best crossover hit since "Walk This Way"!
— Matt Taibbi
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
— Otto Von Bismarck
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
— Gore Vidal
While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
— Douglas Brinkley
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it
— Sarah Rees Brennan
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
— Victor Hugo
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
— Henry V. O'Neil
In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
— Edna Buchanan
Well, it made you famous.
— John S. Mosby
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.
— Edmund Burke
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
— Pete Best
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
— Henry David Thoreau
The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
— Andrew Forrest
I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
— Allan Dare Pearce
Take the best that exists and make it better.
— Henry Royce
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
— Jeff Sessions
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
We wanted black power to be all things to all people.
— Cleveland Sellers
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
— Dennis Kucinich
[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them
— James Howe
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
— Ann Coulter
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.
— James S.A. Corey
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
— Christina Baldwin
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
— Jesse Ventura
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.
— Bill Bright
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.
— Anonymous
Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.
— Winston Churchill