Quotes about Civic

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. Votes: 3

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. Votes: 3

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. Votes: 3

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. Votes: 3

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic. Votes: 3

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. Votes: 3

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... Votes: 3

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do. Votes: 3

When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them. Votes: 3

Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes. Votes: 3

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. Votes: 2

Voting is a civic sacrament. Votes: 1

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Votes: 1

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. Votes: 1

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. Votes: 1

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. Votes: 1

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. Votes: 1

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. Votes: 1

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. Votes: 1

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. Votes: 1

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Votes: 1

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live. Votes: 1

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. Votes: 1

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. Votes: 1

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. Votes: 1

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. Votes: 1

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well. Votes: 1

I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care. Votes: 1

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. Votes: 1

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. Votes: 1

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' Votes: 1

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment. Votes: 1

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there. Votes: 1

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities. Votes: 1

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. Votes: 1

In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen. Votes: 1

One must always be civic-minded. Votes: 0

Voter apathy is a civic abdication. Votes: 0

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements. Votes: 0

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life. Votes: 0

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life. Votes: 0

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. Votes: 0

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Votes: 0

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. Votes: 0

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. Votes: 0

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. Votes: 0

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. Votes: 0

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle. Votes: 0

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. Votes: 0

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement. Votes: 0

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. Votes: 0

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. Votes: 0

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible. Votes: 0

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. Votes: 0

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. Votes: 0

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. Votes: 0

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. Votes: 0

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. Votes: 0

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. Votes: 0

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums. Votes: 0

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. Votes: 0

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. Votes: 0

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. Votes: 0

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions. Votes: 0

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. Votes: 0

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. Votes: 0

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is. Votes: 0

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. Votes: 0

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. Votes: 0

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. Votes: 0

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism. Votes: 0

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. Votes: 0

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. Votes: 0

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest. Votes: 0

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation. Votes: 0

To Jane Jacob's three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. Votes: 0

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation. Votes: 0

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party. Votes: 0

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership. Votes: 0

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election Votes: 0

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. Votes: 0

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship. Votes: 0

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. Votes: 0

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships. Votes: 0

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Votes: 0

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book. Votes: 0

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many. Votes: 0

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power. Votes: 0

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. Votes: 0

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow. Votes: 0

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy. Votes: 0

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. Votes: 0

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.' Votes: 0

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers. Votes: 0

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. Votes: 0

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging. Votes: 0

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. Votes: 0

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure. Votes: 0

Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening core civil liberties, rights and civic responsibilities. Votes: 0

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. Votes: 0

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. Votes: 0

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power. Votes: 0

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. Votes: 0

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. Votes: 0

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty. Votes: 0

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal. Votes: 0

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform. Votes: 0

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them. Votes: 0

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life. Votes: 0

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise. Votes: 0

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. Votes: 0

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. Votes: 0

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body. Votes: 0

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. Votes: 0

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Votes: 0

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development. Votes: 0

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. Votes: 0

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens. Votes: 0

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments. Votes: 0

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education. Votes: 0

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time. Votes: 0

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. Votes: 0

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. Votes: 0

Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today. Votes: 0

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation. Votes: 0

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge. Votes: 0

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay. Votes: 0