#civil

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#begin #both #civil #come #community

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#civilized #civilized society #design #everyone #guiding

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#civilization #fear #great #may #out

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#cannot #certainly #civilization #effort #example

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#boundaries #civil #each #geographic #goal

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#better #bravery #changed #civil #civil rights

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#bounds #civilization #great #had #mastery

Civilization can never be sustainable. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#never #sustainable