Civil may refer to:
- Civic virtue, or civility
- Civil action, or lawsuit
- Civil affairs
- Civil and political rights
- Civil disobedience
- Civil engineering
- Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces
- Civil law (disambiguation), multiple meanings
- Civil liberties
- Civil religion
- Civil service
- Civil society
- Civil war
Famous quotes containing the word civil:
“Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man’s yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”
—Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
“They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)