#civil

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#base #civil #civil society #enormous #harm

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#civilized #consider #degrees #different #different ways

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#commitment #company #effort #group #group effort

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#certainly #civilization #decline #dominant #into

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#break #civilization #completely #down #enough

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. ↗

— Janis Ian

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #congress #doing

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#better #civil #civil society #direction #energy

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#civil rights #create #does #everybody #get