Civics Quotes · Page 2

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

— Elon Musk

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

— Aaron Wildavsky

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

— Jim Lehrer

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

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

There's a lot that people don't know about the basics of civics.

— Jasmine Crockett

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.

— Rod Lurie

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

— Lee R. Raymond

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our…

— Frank B. Kellogg

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty…

— Gordon Brown

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence…

— Irvine Welsh

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of…

— Geoff Mulgan

In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and…

— Irvine Welsh

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of…

— Josh Fox

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

[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that…

— Calvin Coolidge

To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business…

— Eli Broad

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky…

— Richard Dreyfuss

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of…

— Jay Sekulow

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more…

— Robert D. Putnam

In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This…

— Ben Sasse

For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with…

— Linda Colley

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious…

— William James

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to…

— Neal A. Maxwell

A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.…

— Jose Rizal

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement…

— D. Todd Christofferson

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,…

— Sufjan Stevens

Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our…

— Marion D. Hanks

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that…

— Henry Giroux

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

— Alain de Botton

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

— George Takei

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

— Martin Luther

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

— Jonathan Chait

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

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

— Samuel

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

— Max Anders