#civil

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. ↗

— Mark Skousen

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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. ↗

— Jerry Springer

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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties. ↗

— Roger Stone

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As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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