You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government… — Jennifer Pahlka 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
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came… — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of… — Josh Fox 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
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the… — James B. Weaver Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer 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
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
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
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 Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me.… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
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
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
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
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
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the… — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
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
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
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
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic… — David Byrne 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