The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for… — Mike Harding 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
There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade 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
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day,… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years,… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the… — Sharon Stone 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
There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I don't know everybody's view on due process, but I do have an opinion on what the Constitution says, what the Pledge… — Mike Leach Copy Share Image
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
To Toronto City Council: The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of… — W. T. Cosgrave Copy Share Image
