Quotes About Civic

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

A true citizen must be a realist both at heart and mind.

I adopted a highway. I'm trying to teach it to pick up after itself.

Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent.

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Realism about human beings nonetheless compels us to recognize that logical rigor and philosophical soundness carry little weight in civic discourse. They simply cannot stir up sufficient fervor, at least not among a large enough population, to drive mass movements. These movements, even the most virtuous, apparently need a dose of irrationalism to keep going.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Apolitical people are often unaware of the procedural aspects of voting.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

Many people take for granted that they always have and always will have the right to vote, but shedding doubt on that may be enough to make people realize that they shouldn't squander their votes.

One of the biggest reasons that people don't vote is because they don't see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote.

One of the most effective ways there is of getting people to vote is by simply asking them to.

Ready to make your voice heard? Go and vote.

Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.

When we allow emotions to trump the intellect, we swallow "facts" that are demonstrably untrue, letting them fly around unchallenged in a mockery of civic discourse, supporting public figures who promote fictions to further their own cause.

Whatever it was that drove this passion for collecting, it had an important civic function, Marietta thought. After all, without the largesse of the Medici family, would the Renaissance have happened? Would Florence possess the eternal collection of architecture, painting, and sculpture that it does today?

Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.