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Civic Quotes by Robert D. Putnam
- 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…
- What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
- 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.…
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- Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile
- I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy… — Eli Broad
- 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
- 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
- Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan
- Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And… — John Ashcroft
- It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster
- 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
- The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard
- Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — Unknown Author
- 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
- O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the… — Pope John XXIII