If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“We should change the name of AR-15s to 'Marco Rubio' because they are so easy to buy” — Sarah Chadwick Copy Share Image
One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard Copy Share Image
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think the Tea Party monicker has kind of outlived its use. I think this is just an America movement, I mean,… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths… — Anthony Aveni Copy Share Image
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us… — William James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes.… — Justin Johnson Copy Share Image
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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