Civics Quotes

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

— Charles M. Blow

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

One must always be civic-minded.

— Hiroo Onoda

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

— Norman Douglas

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

— Anonymous

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

— Jim Lehrer

I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.

— Rod Lurie

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

— Phillip E. Johnson

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

There's a lot that people don't know about the basics of civics.

— Jasmine Crockett

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

— William James

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the…

— Judy Woodruff

“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

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that…

— Colin Powell

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy…

— Michelle Bachelet

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a…

— Paul Virilio

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;…

— David Blunkett

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

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

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

We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to…

— John Avlon

What is our civic duty when our system of civics is broken? When our politics are so partisan that we put our…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility…

— George Hickenlooper

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young…

— Jonathan Sacks

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the…

— Arianna Huffington

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world…

— Anonymous

We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else…

— Joel Salatin

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with…

— Linda Colley

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

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

If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even…

— Edward Snowden

The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the…

— Bel Kaufman

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

— Michael Ignatieff

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

— Elon Musk