Civil Quotes

Yugoslavia is ready to accept a civilian mission under a United Nations flag, with Yugoslavia to agree on the composition and the number of countries, with a big corresponding role for Russia. - Slobodan Milosevic

You've got to really believe in what you're doing because our team is made up of civilian volunteers. No one gets pai, we do get a lot of support from State Civil Defense. - Gary Wiegand

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians. - Barry Goldwater

You're just making difficulties and problems all the time. Isn't your continued work in the civil service important to you? After all, you won't be able to continue working with us this way. Don't you have any ambitions to get ahead? - David Wolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse? - Virginia Woolf

Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century? - Lennox Yearwood

You work in the civilian world, and you're treated with a certain amount of respect. Then you go to the military, and they treat you like an idiot. - Meredith Leyva

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion. - Midge Ure

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. - John Buchan