#civil

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#burgeoning #civilization #direction #early #flow

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#foundation #mind #only #sound #state

Civil servants take forever to do anything. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#civil #civil servants #forever #servants #take

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#civilian #comes #enemy #freedom #gap

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#anyone #civilized #creed #curious #every

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#civility #notion #parliament #perhaps #quaint