Civilised Quote by Robert Bourassa Download Open image “There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.” — Robert Bourassa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilised Democratic Detention
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone. — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
Modern threats, like terrorism, disease and organised crime have no respect for borders. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted… — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able… — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After… — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image