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There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don’t do a bad job. (Civil Quotes)
There’s a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don’t compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side. (Civil Quotes)
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. (Civil Quotes)
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. (Civil Quotes)
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information. (Civil Quotes)
Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable. (Civil Quotes)
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. (Civil Quotes)
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. (Civil Quotes)
Not only had he lost the only girl he’d ever loved, he’d lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant. (Civil Quotes)
Our government just won’t enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. (Civil Quotes)
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. (Civil Quotes)
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change. (Civil Quotes)
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. (Civil Quotes)
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That’s what I mean by respectability. (Civil Quotes)
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. (Civil Quotes)
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. (Civil Quotes)
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. (Civil Quotes)
I think that’s one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it’s been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I’m conservative, but I’m not mad about it. (Civil Quotes)
I think there’s something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things. (Civil Quotes)
You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world (Civil Quotes)
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. (Civil Quotes)
My life is about being a civil rights activist. That’s my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don’t. It’s for everyone. (Civil Quotes)
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire. (Civil Quotes)
Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won’t waste their time being friendly. But they are civil. (Civil Quotes)
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. (Civil Quotes)
It’s soul force that removed the English from India. It’s soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It’s soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for civil rights. (Civil Quotes)
It’s clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society. (Civil Quotes)
You don’t have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) (Civil Quotes)
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. (Civil Quotes)
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? (Civil Quotes)