Civics Quotes

153 quotes by 136 authors

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 families that want… — 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 engagement and that… — David Byrne
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that… — Barbara Jordan
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world… — 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. — J. William Schickel
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his… — Ludwig von Mises
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith… — Pope John XXIII
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the… — Antonin Artaud
Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading… — Sharon Stone
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the… — David McCullough
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. — Roger Ebert
Voter apathy is a civic abdication. — Charles M. Blow
People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As… — W. T. Cosgrave

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