Top 1200 Civic Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I never knew that when you're number one on the call sheet you have not only the responsibility of carrying the film but also the responsibility of keeping up the morale of the crew and cast.

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

We need to encourage young women to run for office and become civic leaders in their own communities.

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

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

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

I assume most people trust me, if they vote for me in elections. And it is the most important thing. It places great responsibility on me, immense responsibility. I am grateful to the people for that trust, but I surely feel great responsibility for what I do and for the result of my work.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

If responsibility is not in the hands of the Iraqi government, then I consider the responsibility for this event lies with the occupation forces which should either leave immediately or according to a timetable.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

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

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.

I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late.

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

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

You know, I would like to think that the right way to do things is that the people who actually have the jobs that are nominated by the president, confirmed by the Senate, have responsibility for different regions in the world - that they have responsibility for the policy.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

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

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.

If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

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.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.