I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or… — Stephen Briggs Copy Share Image
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me.… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
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