Quotes About Civic

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

I love being ankle deep in conversations about sewers and potholes. That's where my heart has always been, and city government has the chance to get it right on both.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on there.

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.

Günümüzde de res publica'ya kat?l?m art?k bir oluruna b?rakma sorunudur ve bu kamusal yaÅŸam?n ÅŸehir gibi mekanlar? da bir bozulma sürecine girmiÅŸtir.

We have had enough guesses; I'll state the obvious: Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. And that is the one practical difference. He may fail in wisdom, he may lapse in civic virtue. But his average performance is enormously better than that of any other class of rulers in history.

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

Alexis de Tocqueville admired the laws that formally established America's democratic order, but he argued that voluntary organizations were the real source of the nation's robust civic life. John Dewey claimed that social connection is predicated on the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment. Democracy begins at home, he famously wrote, and its home is the neighborly community.

Few modern social infrastructures are natural, however, and in densely populated areas even beaches and forests require careful engineering and management to meet human needs. This means that all social infrastructures require investment, whether for development or upkeep, and when we fail to build and maintain it, the material foundations of our social and civic life erode.

By deliberately withholding power, you generate more. By choosing to redirect it, you remember that the choice is yours. Such acts remind us how much dormant civic power we actually have—and how infrequently we ever activate that potential in full.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental wellness; and engaged citizens have shown me the civic potential of stable, vibrant blocks where neighbours know one another by name.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.