Top 372 Civic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.
I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.
The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.
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.
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
I am pleased that through SM Foundation, we are able to do many socio-civic projects and support college scholars in need who come from public schools.
By giving young Americans a stake in the outcome of their communities, we can renew our civic identity while providing people with skills and experiences that they can use throughout their lives.
I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.
You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.
The word nationalism, to most people, has a virtuous whiff; historically, it's been conflated with terms like patriotism and loyalty and solidarity with one's civic tribe.
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.
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.
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.
It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.
