My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an… — Olivia De Havilland 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
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum -… — Al Gore 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
In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more… — Robert D. Putnam 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
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
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
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