Best Civic Quotes
164 Civic quotes by 138 unique authors
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's…
— Zaha Hadid
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I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine…
— Robert Spencer
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through…
— Gordon Brown
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The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created…
— Alan Keyes
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the…
— William James
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Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of…
— Unknown Author
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is…
— Daniel Libeskind
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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
— Bruce Schneier
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Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.…
— Marion D. Hanks
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman…
— Richard Rorty
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The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the…
— James B. Weaver
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Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our…
— Robert D. Putnam
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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic…
— Allen Weinstein
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Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
— Robert D. Putnam
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A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter.…
— Robert D. Putnam
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a…
— Vartan Gregorian
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Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation…
— Thomas Ehrlich
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
— Charles W. Pickering
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and…
— John Thorn
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies…
— Tom G. Palmer
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The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on…
— Mark Slouka
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The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical…
— James Howard Kunstler
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
— George Takei
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