#civil

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#civil rights #i #leader #rights #singer

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. ↗

— David Letterman

#apart #civilization #falls #new #new york

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. ↗

— Adam Levine

#boo #civilization #decay #good #honey

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#contract #first #first principle #legitimate #only

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. ↗

— James Lovelock

#form #got #hasn #long #present

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#adopt #both #civilized #countries #generally