Quotes About Civic

religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

WE'VE PLACED a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities. Rights have to come from somewhere, and they come from the community. In return, all of us have a responsibility to the community. Some people call this the "communitarian" movement, but I call it common sense. This

I take my job really, really seriously. I also take being a citizen very seriously.

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

I've always held a pretty strong civic duty.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

What is the moral equivalent of war—not the equivalent of its carnage, its xenophobias, its savagery—but its urgency, its meaning, its solidarity? What else generates what he called the "civic temperament"?

James continued. "The only thing needed henceforward is to inflame the civic temper as past history has inflamed the military temper.

the blustery talk of civic leaders—and not Chicago's weather—had inspired the "Windy City" moniker.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

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 civic functions in community life.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.