Civic Quotes
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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
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
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
Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.
— Michael W. McConnell
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
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
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.
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
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
What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There
— George Lakoff
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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
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
