#civil

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#because #civilizations #common #community #entire

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. ↗

— David E. Price

#both #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #drew

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. ↗

— Simon Raven

#attitude #bed #civilized #did #god

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. ↗

— Herbert Read

#christianity #civilization #emerge #emerged #just

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#civil #civil service #examination #federal #federal government

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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