#civil

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#civilians #could #extermination #justify #scale

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#civil rights #comes #conflict #counted #decades

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those. ↗

— David Spade

#civilians #hear #i #lot #relationships

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#civilians #innocent #innocent civilians #killing #terrorism