Civics Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

  George Takei

  Blessed, Careers, Busybodies

  "The East West Enterprise". Interview with Kristin Friedrich, www.ladowntownnews.com. October 24, 2005.

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• 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.

  Allen Weinstein

  Education, Attention, Records

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• Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

  William James

  People, Democracy, Genius

  William James (2012). “Memories and Studies”, p.33, The Floating Press

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• We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

  John Avlon

  Trying, Bleeding, Steps

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Space, Scary, Identity

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• 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.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Law, Justice

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

  John Goddard

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

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• The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Wall, Men, Honest

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• The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Community

  "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" by Theodore Roosevelt. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics", 1910.

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• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Dozen, Britain

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

  Charles W. Pickering

  Responsibility, Media, Aggravation

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

  Paul Virilio

  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• 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.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Writing, Government, Expression

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• 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.

  Patrick Geddes

  Winning, Ideas, Influence

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• Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  School, Government, Half

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Weighs In on Immigration, the Supreme Court and Civics Ed". "Good Morning America" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2010.

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

  Mary Antin

  Morning, School, Pride

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, Past, Reality

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

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• 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.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Rights, Influence

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

  Lee R. Raymond

  People, Flow, Economy

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• 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.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  People, Today, Facts

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• 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.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Religious, Men, Expression

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• 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.

  John Thorn

  Pride, Men, Bags

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• 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.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Government, Doe, Tickets

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute

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