#civil

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

— Adam Lambert

#civil rights #i #leader #rights #singer

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #churches #civilized #civilized world #death

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#capture #civil #civil rights #entourage #equal

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #collapsed #developed #does #fate

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#become #civilization #danger #destruction #developments

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#biggest #birth #birth control #civil #civil rights

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#being #civility #contain #depends #individuals