#civil

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#am #calling #ceasefire #civilians #concern

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#civil #civil rights #complaint #credit #dogged

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#give #give me #i #me #pampered

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#born #centuries #civilizations #decades #ideologies

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#bit #burdens #cases #civil #easier

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#civil #dead #ghost #i #i am

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow