Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid 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
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
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
There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them… — John Thorn 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
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
Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills,… — Thomas Ehrlich Copy Share Image
To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be… — Bruce R. McConkie 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
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous… — Robert D. Putnam 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
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
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 challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux 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
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal 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
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel 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
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain de Botton 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
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
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
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
“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
