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I'm just trying to do my part to save the world. — J. Cornell Michel

Voter apathy is a civic abdication. — Charles M. Blow

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check. — Jeffrey Toobin

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. — Michael Ignatieff

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

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. — Dane Cook

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. — George Takei

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen. — Gina Greenlee

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. — Elon Musk

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

I'm going to go see if Graham needs first aid." Or mouth to mouth. It is my civic duty. — Lindy Zart

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is. — Ty Burr

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. — Cokie Roberts

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. — Lee R. Raymond

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. — Henry Louis Gates

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

You must be a blast on long car rides."
"Oh, I am. You haven't experienced fun until you try to fuck in the front seat of a Civic. — Nenia Campbell

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead. — Lish McBride

The most important political office is that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

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. — Ludwig Von Mises

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid

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

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor. — Michael W. McConnell

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

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life. — William H. O'Connell

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

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

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti

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

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight. — William Golding

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. — Sissy Spacek

Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. — Martin Luther

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

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, We all do. — Bill Bryson

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle. — Max Anders

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

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. — Barack Obama

Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility — Anthony Horowitz

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest. — Trent Lott

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation. — Paul Cook

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. — David Byrne

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile

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

Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define. — Mark A. Noll

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country? — George Washington

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. — Norman Douglas

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain De Botton

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. — Christine Pelosi

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There — George Lakoff

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

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. — Richard Rorty

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements. — Wole Soyinka

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt

Voting is a civic sacrament. — Theodore Hesburgh

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! — Sinclair Lewis

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. — Christine Pelosi

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums. — Mitch Horowitz

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty. — Daniel Burnham

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. — Mason Cooley

where you'd parked your Civic. — Junot Diaz

The gabled eaves, with Legolandish civic pride, the church clock chimes nine golden times; an Alp rears up on every side; — David Mitchell

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell

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. — John Ashcroft

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief. — Plato

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. — Aaron Wildavsky

One must always be civic-minded. — Hiroo Onoda

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church. — Margaret D. Nadauld

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

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

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould