Civics Quotes - Page 3

• Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

  Christine Pelosi

  Responsibility, Voting, Sacraments

  Christine Pelosi (2012). “Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits”, p.125, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

  Peter Coyote

  Kind, Currents, Prostitution

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• 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.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Hygiene, Police

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  George Carlin

  Bullshit, Giving, Voting

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Justice, Humanity

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

  Antonin Artaud

  Struggle, Night, People

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.486, Univ of California Press

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

  Jim Lehrer

  Believe, Responsibility, Presidential

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• I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

  Roger Ebert

  Glowing, Class, Generations

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• 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.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Parent, Example

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Military, America, Government

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• I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Children, Thinking

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beach, New York, Powerful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

  Sharon Stone

  Reading, Home, School

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• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Father, Blessing, Practice

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• 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.

  Donald Bren

  Community, Collaboration, Nonprofits

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• It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Attachment, People

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• 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.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, Torn Apart, Retreat

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Robert D. Putnam

  Views, Engagement, Membership

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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

  J. William Schickel

  Honesty, Virtue, Abstinence

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• The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Block, Pride, House

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Challenges, Faults, Moral

  Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Cities, Leader, Credible

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