Civil disobedience Quotes

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

Henry Louis Mencken

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships -- the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

Edison Haines

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

George Herheri

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Daniel Webster

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Arthur Keith

The war against terrorism is not in the houses of innocent Afghan civilians. The fight against terrorism is not in bombing children and women in Afghanistan. The war against terrorism should be carried out in his safe haven, sanctuary and his training camp, not in Afghanistan, and today this has been proved right.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

Barbra Streisand

It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.

Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich