“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters… — Merrell Fankhauser Copy Share Image
We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. — Aaron Wildavsky Copy Share Image
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. — Lee R. Raymond 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
It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the… — Hubertine Auclert Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan 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 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 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
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business… — Eli Broad 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
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
[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
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