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
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
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep… — Mark Slouka 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
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 Copy Share Image
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in… — Barack Obama 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
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
Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm.… — Ken Burns 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
Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti 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
Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may… — Eva Cox 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
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
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to… — Evgeny Morozov 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
I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
