Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.