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Here lies a civil servant. He was civil to everyone, and servant to the devil (in The London Zoo)
View quotes by C H Sisson

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
View quotes by Karl Marx

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
View quotes by Harri Holkeri

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse ('The Naked Civil Servant')
View quotes by Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. ('The Naked Civil Servant')
View quotes by Quentin Crisp

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.
View quotes by Malcom X

Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore.
View quotes by Nell Gwyn

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan

The Civil Service is profoundly deferential - 'Yes Minister! No, Minister! If you wish it, Minister!'
View quotes by Richard Crossman

You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed.
View quotes by George Bush

'Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
View quotes by Nancy Mitford

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
View quotes by Edmund Burke

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan

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.

View quotes by A Philip Randolph

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. - Cause of Death
View quotes by Patricia Cornwell

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
View quotes by Simon Schama

We do not regard it as acceptable that those of us who regard it as our duty to challenge any legislation which may have the effect of detracting from the civil rights and individual liberties if any citizen if the UK should be traduced in this way
View quotes by Sir Menzies Campbell

Business, labour and civil society organisations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
View quotes by Kofi Annan

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast
View quotes by George Herbert

A civil servant doesn't make jokes
View quotes by Eugene Ionesco



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