Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the… — James B. Weaver Copy Share Image
When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under… — Norman Manea Copy Share Image
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Civility is the everyday ethic of honoring the dignity of others as we would wish our own to be honored—an active commitment… — Diane Kalen-Sukra Copy Share Image
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
